Cathy has written extensively for the stage and her plays have been performed at Oldham Coliseum, National Theatre, Royal Exchange, Contact Theatre and toured nationally in non-theatre spaces. Plays include; Moving Pictures, The Bubbler, Beautiful House, Fifteen Minutes With You, co written musicals (with Lindsay Williams) Dreamers, Meat Pie Sausage Roll. She has two collections of poetry MUMB and Beside The Seaside. She has written living history pieces for The People’s History Museum and has collaborated on public art works.