Cathie Boyd
Cathie Boyd was born in Belfast and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. As the founder, in 1994, of Cryptic, she has produced and directed all productions over the past fifteen years. Her work includes numerous international collaborations and has been presented at festivals in Europe and throughout the Americas.
Her opera credits include Faust, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Simon Holt’s Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?, Sciarrino’s Infinito Nero, and Kurtág’s Scenes from a Novel. In 2000 she produced an international festival, Beckett Time. She directed the openings of the Royal Museum of Scotland, Glasgow’s Imax Cinema and Science Centre and the Glasgow City Halls with the BBC SSO. She has created live interactive visuals for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s performances of Stravinsky’s The Firebird in Baltimore and Washington, before going on to present these visuals in Germany and Poland in 2008.
In 2001, Cathie was made a Fellow of NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) to develop the visual staging of music through new technologies. She has also been awarded Outstanding Young Person Award, Junior Chambers of Commerce 2003; European Woman of Achievement for the Arts 1999 and an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First for her production Parallel Lines in 1996.
Cathie's five favourite things:
- Swimming in the sea especially on Islay
- Samuel Beckett
- Best spa: Therme Vals in Switzerland – its like arriving in heaven too early
- Yves Klein’s 1962 – L’Arbre grande eponge bleue
- Trevor Chisman: Best Glasgow masseur
