
Founder of CreateTheater, and Artistic Director of the Experts Theater Company
I specialize in developing new plays and musicals and then putting them on stage.
Are you dreaming of getting your play produced? We should talk.
CreateTheater Professional College Musical Theatre Partnership
CreateTheater and SUNY Cortland are proud to announce that THE BONE HARP has been chosen to be developed in their BFA Musical Theatre Department for the Fall 2022 semester.
THE BONE HARP: book and lyrics by Laura Stratford, music by Heidi Jooten
The Experts Theater Company
Are you searching for an artistic home?
Many theater artists know the secret sauce in developing their work: finding a theater company that believes in them and supports them, with other talented artists for inspration and encouragement along the way.
I created the Experts Theater Company (ETC) to be that place.
CreateTheater is the community. ETC is the place to get to work with other artists.
News
CreateTheater Founder Cate Cammarata TRU’s 2022 Entrepreneur of the Year
Off-Broadway producer-director-dramaturg Cate Cammarata was honored as TRU 2022 Entrepreneur of the Year on March 20 as part of the annual TRU Benefit Gala.
As the Founder of CreateTheater.com in 2016, formed to work dramaturgically with writers in the US and abroad, Ms. Cammarata launched the Monday Night Reading Series the first week of the lockdown in March 2020 to keep writers focused and developing their shows while theaters were closed. During the pandemic CreateTheater helped develop and/or produced more than 70 shows with online readings, workshops and dramaturgical guidance. It was for this previous work that she is being recognized by TRU.
Recent Blog Posts

Creating Theater in 2023
A Watershed Moment COVID-19 will prove to be the watershed moment in defining the history of the 21st century. Apart from our communal human experience of the virus and its reverberations across the human spectrum, the arts and in particular theater must learn to surf...

What Type of Reading?
While Broadway continues to recover post-covid, there is a noticeable increase in the number of readings being offered. This is a good thing - many of the shows written during the shutdown are now ready to try out in front of a live audience, and I see it as a...

Marketing Your Show: the Basics
Marketing is NOT a Choice If you know me then you know that I'd much rather spend all day every day helping you write your show than marketing myself. Marketing is not my favorite thing. However, I have to remind myself that marketing shows is how we get...