Catherine Ann Jones

Catherine Ann Jones is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and author. She wrote the screenplay for the film The Christmas Wife [1] and Unlikely Angel. [2][3] She wrote several episodes of the television series Touched by an Angel. She has written six books;

• The Way of Story: The Craft & Soul of Writing[4]
• Heal Your Self with Writing (Nautilus Book Award 2014)
• What Story Are You Living?
• Freud's Oracle
• True Fables: Stories from Childhood
• Buddha and the Dancing Girl: A Creative Life

Catherine Ann Jones holds a graduate degree in Depth Psychology and Archetypal Mythology from Pacifica Graduate Institute where she has also taught. After playing major roles in over fifty plays on and off-Broadway, she became disappointed by the lack of good roles for women and wrote a play, On the Edge, about Virginia Woolf and her struggle with madness in a world gone mad, Hitler and WWII. The play won a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Eleven of her plays, including Calamity Jane (both play and musical), The Women of Cedar Creek, and Freud’s Oracle, have won multiple awards and are produced both in and out of New York. Her films include The Christmas Wife (Jason Robards & Julie Harris) - four Emmy nominations, Unlikely Angel (Dolly Parton), and the popular TV series, Touched by an Angel. A Fulbright Research Scholar to India studying shamanism, she has taught at The New School University, University of Southern California, and the Esalen and the Omega Institutes. Her books, The Way of Story: the craft & soul of writing, Heal Your Self with Writing (Nautilus Book Award 2014), What Story Are You Living, Freud’s Oracle, and True Fables: Stories from Childhood are used in many schools, including New York University writing programs. Based in Ojai, California, she leads The Way of Story and Heal Your Self with Writing workshops throughout the United States, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. Over 56,000 have subscribed to her six online courses.

When she was 19 she met the famous East Indian writer and Novelist Raja Rao who was lecturing on Indian philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin.[5] They were married in Paris in 1965 and had one son, Christopher Rama Rao. The twenty-year marriage ended in divorce.[6]

For plays, blog, interviews, workshop schedule, keynote talks, online courses, and writing consultant services please visit www.wayofstory.