Catherine Campbell (she/they) is a teaching academic at Adelaide University, and previously taught at UniSA since 2002. She is a singer, actor, director and educator. Catherine is the Course Coordinator for various courses including PERF 2001 Cabaret: Context & Practice, PERF 3004 Live Performance Production, MUSI 1037 Music Performance, as well as CREA2006 Creativity and the Adelaide Festival and HOSP 3001 Introduction to Festivals. Catherine has previously been Course Coordinator for  PERF 3007 World Music Theatre, PERF 1011 Stage Performance, COMM 2103 Freelance & Enterprise for the Creative Industries, ARCH 2027 Match Studio Projects and PERF 1001 Effective Communication. Catherine celebrates and promotes the excellent learning, inclusivity and investigative culture inherited from UniSA. She previously taught and wrote courses in Arts Management at the Flinders Street School of Music (BA Music). Catherine has a BA (Hons 1st class) from Flinders Univeristy and half a PhD in English Literature (ARC scholarship). She studied an Acting Diploma at AC Arts (then CPA) and a Graduate Diploma of Arts Management at UniSA (City West), as well as at Yale (USA) as the recipient of a scholarship. Catherine is also a long-standing member of the State Opera of South Australia Chorus (1997-).
Catherine is based at Magill campus. The best way for students to contact Catherine is via email.
Catherine's professional performance experience includes:
MUSIC THEATRE: 'Mrs Mullin', Carousel (dir Stuart Maunder); Sweeney Todd (dir Stuart Maunder) & Sweeney Todd (dir Gale Edwards), State Opera SA; The Mikado (dir Stuart Maunder) with Anthony Warlow, Adelaide Festival Centre; The Front (dir Andy Packer), Andrew Lippa's Wild Party, Maltby & Shire's Take Flight, Jason Robert-Brown's Songs For A New World, all with the artists and all for Adelaide Cabaret Festival; The SA Premiere of Into The Woods (in the role of the Witch), Adelaide Festival Centre/George Street; Les Miserables (Mdme Thenadier) with Normie Rowe, MS Society.
OPERA: Saul (dir Barrie Kosky), Hamlet (dir Neil Armfield),  Requiem (dir Romeo Castellucci), Golden Cockerel (dir Barrie Kosky), Requiem (dir Christian Spruck), Nightingale and other fables (dir Robert Lepage) - Adelaide Festival of Arts; Praskovia, The Merry Widow (dir Graeme Murphy), Cora the Boots, Boojum! (dir Joseph Mitchell), chorus, covers and small roles, State Opera of South Australia; Mercedes, Carmen, Second Woman, Magic Flute, Co*Opera.
CABARET: Solo and featured shows with the Adelaide Cabaret Festival (My Blue Angel; Secret Love; Gentlemen Prefer Curves); national and international tours/seasons, including New York: My Blue Angel, Gentlemen Prefer Curves, Secret Love. Various solo shows and co-productions, Adelaide Fringe, Adelaide Cabaret Fringe; Berlin Cabaret (3 years), The Weimar Room.
DIRECTING: The Hipster (World Premiere) by Tamara Linke, Adelaide Fringe; Muriel Matters (World Premiere) by Sheila Duncan, Adelaide Cabaret Fringe/MMS; Assistant Director, Elixir of Love, (Simon Phillips, RD Matthew Barklay), State Opera SA; Director, Hipster the Musical, Soundbowl Productions (Adelaide Fringe); Student productions: various including RAW; Echoes of the Underworld (UniSA LPP class); 
OTHER TEACHING: Vocal educator, OnStage youth performing arts, Adelaide Festival Centre; Stagecraft/theatre lecturer/tutor, Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide; Cabaret Shows, 3rd year students, Ballarat Academy of Performing Arts, Federation University; Guest Lecturer, Elder Conservatorium Music Theatre.
Catherine was chair of the UniSA National Reconciliation Week Magill Campus Working Group 2022-2025 and honours First Nations people including the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains on which we work and live. Soverignty was never ceded.