Giant in Into the Woods (special video appearance)
Catherine E. Coulson was a much-loved member of OSF’s acting company for more than two decades before her death in 2015. She appeared in the 2014 OSF production of Into the Woods, and we honor her memory with the 2025 production.
In 22 seasons at OSF: General Matilda B. Cartwright in Guys and Dolls; Stepmother, Granny, Giant, Milky White in Into the Woods (OSF, Wallis Annenberg Center); Pantino, Eglamour in The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Mattie Fae in August: Osage County; Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Mrs. Gottlieb in Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Juana Panza in Don Quixote; Catherine in By the Waters of Babylon; Alice in Handler; Gertie in Fuddy Meers; Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor; E. M. Ashford in Wit; Clara in The Magic Fire (OSF; The Kennedy Center); Virginia in Three Viewings; Penny in You Can’t Take It with You; The Taming of the Shrew; The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa; The Diary of Anne Frank; As You Like It; Our Town; The Clay Cart; On the Razzle; Napoli Milionaria!; The Visit; Continental Divide; Much Ado about Nothing; Richard II; Vilna’s Got a Golem; Pentecost; Black Swan Lab (2009–2011, 2014). Other theatres: Good People (Ensemble Theater of Santa Barbara), Denver Center Theatre Company, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, others. Film/TV: Portlandia, Psych, Calvin Marshall, Another You, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Redwood Highway, Twin Peaks (Log Lady).