Catharine Park is a New York Emmy-nominated documentary director and showrunner. She specializes in verité character-driven documentaries, investigative series, archival storytelling, and series with compelling narrative arcs.
Catharine served as Executive Producer on Netflix's Conversations with a Killer franchise, including The John Wayne Gacy Tapes and The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes. She directed The Idaho Student Murders and The Pike County Murders for Peacock, and directed and executive produced Wrong Man with Joe Berlinger for Starz and Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio for Paramount Network. Catharine has overseen National Geographic's Explorer, covering international investigative and issue-based stories, and directed The Alamo: At the Crossroads of History for History Channel, currently playing at The Alamo Museum in San Antonio. She wrote the scripted film Lethal Lookalike: The Victoria Nasyrova Story for Tubi and has held supervising roles on A&E's long-running series The First 48.
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Catharine is member of the D.G.A., a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, a native New Yorker, and a two-time PAGE International Screenwriting Awards finalist for Best Original Comedy Pilot.
Awards and Recognition:
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes was nominated for Best Limited Series for the Crictics' Choice Real Awards in 2022. The series takes a deep-dive into the mind of a serial killer using previously unreleased audio recordings of Gacy talking about his life and crimes.
Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio was selected to screen at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina in 2018. Full Frame praised the series as "stunning," and noted the series' examination of "the devastating intersections of addiction, prostitution, and violence in a community besieged by the opioid epidemic."
The Pike County Murders became Peacock's most-watched current series in over five years; the gripping three-part documentary investigates the brutal execution-style murders of eight members of the Rhoden and Gilley families in Pike County, Ohio - the largest murder investigation in the state's history.
