Catherine Hughes is an actor, director, and writer, who has practiced theatre at the Museum of Science in Boston for more than ten years. Hughes coordinates that museum’s Science Theatre Program and is founder and Executive Director of the International Museum Theatre Alliance, a non-profit organization for museum theatre practitioners. In addition to guest lecturing at museum studies programs at Harvard, Tufts, and the State University of New York at Cooperstown, she has spoken on museum theatre at numerous national and international conferences.