Catherine Filloux
@catherinefilloux.bsky.social
CATHERINE FILLOUX is an award-winning French Algerian American playwright and librettist who has been writing about human rights for many decades. www.catherinefilloux.com
On June 29th, the U.S. Supreme Court protected the freedom of the press. However, we must continue to fight for people like my friend Theary Seng, who is still imprisoned in Cambodia for speaking up for human rights. READ MORE: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... thearyseng.com/component/co...
Supreme Court lets landmark journalist protection stand
Alan Dershowitz, the lawyer who defended President Trump from impeachment, asked the Supreme Court to make it easier to sue the media for defamation.
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This month is Plastic-Free July, where we all have the opportunity to make a change for the betterment of our environment. The Olivia Trilogy comprises three plays that together create a sustained meditation on the environmental crisis and the human beings caught inside it.
While Íngrid Betancourt, a former senator and anti-corruption activist, was running for President of Colombia she was kidnapped by the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (FARC), a Marxist revolutionary terrorist organization. Kidnap Road by Catherine Filloux is a theatrical imagining of these events.
AFRAID, written by Catherine Filloux and directed by Daria Sommers showcases the fear of deportation through the lens of children.
Catherine Filloux’s play Medusa follows Karenna who is a young caregiver bound by contract to an ambitious client who cannot bear abandonment and whose past looms over every conversation. The play focuses on power, memory, caregiving and the possibility of redemption.
County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’ [cough cough]
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The Trump administration's moves threaten $121 billion in new solar and wind power, two energy sources that are the biggest contributors to new capacity in the U.S.
Trump administration threatens 92 GW of new electricity supply with red tape | TechCrunch
The Trump administration's moves threaten $121 billion in new solar and wind power, two energy sources that are the biggest contributors to new capacity in the U.S.
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My dear friend Theary Seng human rights defender starts her fourth year in prison. We call for her immediate release. Learn more freedomhouse.org/report/free-..., #FreeTheary, #Free Them All
Free Them All: The Fred Hiatt Program to Free Political Prisoners
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Last week I convened artists and activists for a reading of my new play OLIVIA, a story that examines the climate crisis through a mother-daughter lens, followed by a powerful conversation on climate accountability.
This week, I was thrilled to join @beyondplastics.bsky.social for a day of action in Albany in support of the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (PRRIA), a bill that would finally put #peopleoverplastic
This fear for children about ICE, deportation and injustice started so many years ago, speak truth to power in Minneapolis and in the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=flOa...
turning your body into a compass | 360° Livestream
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I’m thrilled to announce THE OLIVIA PROJECT, a new work and a call for climate action, presented at the Studio Theatre on Feb 27. The event twill feature a staged reading of OLIVIA, my new two-woman play about fossil fuels and generational reckoning.
Catherine (Filloux) will speak about theater and human rights for Annie Rappeport’s course The Quest to End Genocide Through Education; From Never Forget to Never Again on January 13th at the College of Education and International Education and Policy program, University of Maryland, College Park.
My father Jean Filloux was a pioneering oceanographer who recognized early on the threat that plastic pollution poses to the planet. www.youtube.com/shorts/mY8fi...
My father was an oceanographer who recognized the threat of plastic pollution early on
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Please help me prevent Microplastic Pollution with the Fighting Fibers Act of 2025. You may sign here, thank you www.beyondplastics.org/actions/figh...
Prevent Microplastic Pollution with the Fighting Fibers Act of 2025 — Beyond Plastics - Working To End Single-Use Plastic Pollution
Scientists estimate millions of tons of microfibers enter the ocean every year—making textiles the largest known source of marine microplastic pollution. The Fighting Fibers Act of 2025 introduced b...
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Yesterday I was so happy to attend The Billie Allen Award ceremony for my beloved friend Michael angel Johnson, congratulations Michael angel!
Trip of a Lifetime a play by Catherine Filloux at Theater X (Kai), Tokyo, Japan translated into Japanese by Keiko Tsuneda directed by Sonoko Kawahara performed by Kaori Yamazoe and Mika Ishimura (in this version, two actors play the second lady) Presented by: Crossing Jamaica Avenue
“Wonderful to see my friend in human rights Philippe Sands at the 92nd Street Y last night. His powerful book East West Street explores the life of Raphael Lemkin -- the Polish lawyer who coined the term ‘genocide’ and whose story inspired my play Lemkin’s House.”
"Trip of a Lifetime," my new play about the Second Lady, performed in Tokyo, Japan, translated into Japanese by Keiko Tsuneda, directed by Sonoko Kawahara
Sunday 11/2 10:30am-1:30pm Conversation Free w/ RSVP Storytellers/Walking with Creation Discussion Hosted by Erik Ehn. Participants: Chen Alon (Israel); Claudia Bernardi (Virginia); Catherine Filloux (NYC); Robin Hutchinson (England) www.lamama.org/creatures/
Creatures - October 23-November 2
Creatures is a two-week inhabitation of 74 E 4th St. with installations, performances, workshops, and conversations about beings from across cultures as prophets of compassion amidst ecological precar...
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Hope you can come to my new play this Saturday 9/20 at 2pm, or 6pm, or 8pm, it's free, tickets here www.eventbrite.com/e/third-pers...
