Cathy Haase is an American stage and film actress, writer and educator. She attended Franconia College in New Hampshire and graduated summa cum laude in Theater and Film from City University of New York in 2011. Since 1996, she has taught acting at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In the early 1980s she worked in Germany where she appeared in half a dozen films. She played the lead role in "Schluckauf", the last film of Roland Klick.She settled in New York where she acted in theatre.