I’m Catherine Dao, the crazy gal who thinks she can do it all. Insanity, yes, but hey, I’m doing it. But, wait, I wasn’t always this confident. Yeah, you say arrogant, I say confident. Everyone needs a Nancy Isaak in her/his life. Someone who will unconditionally pester you into believing in yourself, and dish out some big time butt-kicking to help you realize the potential that is within all of us. Thank you, Nancy. I love you for all the torture. We did it! I am so very grateful that we had so much talent and dedication on our set. A girl could really get spoiled fast that way. Believe it or not, my forte is comedy. I’ve written four feature-length screenplays prior to Symphoria, all of them comedies. But I was in the middle of the 3rd season of Dexter when I started writing this script. It was supposed to be a comedic variation of Pygmalion, by the brilliant George Bernard Shaw, only I am “Henry Higgins,” and “Liza” is the younger male student, and, of course, a different, modern day story. Well, you get the picture. Punny, I know. Anyway, not only did my story go darker and darker, it also just about wrote itself, which was new and exciting… and somewhat disturbing. Since I’m fortunate to be surrounded by people who love and support me, I was encouraged to go with it. So, now it’s a romantic thriller with its fair share of humor here and there (old habits die hard, after all).
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