About Catherine
I've returned to the Syracuse area after 7 years, living first outside Philadelphia & then recently in the Hudson Valley.
I love to learn, travel to new places, read, perform, teach, and go for long walks. Finding a new road or a new place to eat are favorite pastimes.
Most of all, I love spending time with friends and family, & am especially proud of my daughter, therapist Maggie Osinski, & my grand-dog Shaymus, all compelling reasons to return to CNY!
Photo by Louisa Vilardi
Teaching
I teach private voice & acting, and I work as a yoga therapist & yoga teacher. I focus on body alignment & movement awareness in my acting, voice & yoga sessions. I'm an experienced theater educator & director, and taught theater, voice lessons & choral music in NYS public schools for over 30 years.
Other teaching experience:
-Workshops in the Hudson Valley include Actor's Connection to Movement and Articulation Workshop for High School Performers
-Regular workshop presenter for the NYSTEA Student Conferences & NYSTEA Professional Development Days.
-Taught Beginner & Gentle Yoga classes, Releasing the Voice Through Yoga, Movement & Asanas- Exploring the Chakras, and The Yoga Teacher's Voice at Yoga Life Institute in Pennsylvania.
YogaLife Institute Wayne, PA
Training & Education
•The Vagus Nerve Connection, course w/ Dr. Arielle Schwartz & Doug Keller, completed August 2025
• Brain Longevity Course through ARPF, completed May 2024
• Two year New England Feldenkrais® Awareness
Through Movement (ATM) teacher training program
Brattleboro, VT, completed June 2023
• Yoga Therapist and Yoga Teacher training, Yoga Life
Institute in Wayne, PA, from 2016-2020
• Masters in Music Ed. (vocal concentration)
Ithaca College graduated 1981
• Bachelors in Music Ed. (vocal concentration)
SUNY Potsdam graduated 1978
Certifications
Member C-IAYT since 2020
(Certified Yoga Therapist, Int'l Assoc. of Yoga Therapists)
Member YA (Yoga Alliance) since 2017
(Certified RYT 500 Yoga Teacher)
Associate Member of Feldenkrais Guild of North America
Member of NYSTEA (New York State Theater Education Assoc.) since 2005
Member of NATS (National Assoc. of Teachers of Singing)
NYS certifications in music and theater, K-12
Performances
Performed at CNY, Capital, Hudson Valley regional and community theaters.
Some roles include:
Calendar Girls, (Ruth)
Follies, (Sally)
James Joyce’s The Dead, (Aunt Kate)
Damn Yankees, (Meg)
State Fair, (Melissa)
I Do, I Do, (Agnes)
The King and I, (Tuptim)
West Side Story, (Maria)
Our Hearts Were Young & Gay, (Emily)
Carousel, (Julie)
Reader's Theatre:
Half-Life of Marie Curie (Hertha)
Silent Sky (Williamina Fleming)
Tough Love (Rae)
Follies, 2017 Theater First
Syracuse, NY
Directing/ Music Directing credits
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Fiddler on the Roof
Bye, Bye Birdie
Arsenic & Old Lace
Anything Goes
The Cop & the Anthem
DMV Tyrant
That Was No Lady, That Was a Private Eye
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Guys & Dolls
Forum
To find out more: email me & set up a phone call.