Are you a real man?Girls In Woods X PAARD (2025)Girls in Woods delves deep into the manosphere, the online culture where extreme forms of masculinity are promoted. From aesthetic morning routines to Andrew Tate, tradwives, and pick-up artists, Eight young performers...

when a grape gets through the crushingATD (2025)In this hopeful dystopia, you meet 37-year-old Pierre, who moves through different eras. Who was he? And who will he be as he moves through the present? This solo performance is an exploration of displacement, identity,...

A popconcert that transforms ‘stuckness’ into full-on feminine, queer rage and expressionParadiso Melkweg Productions (2025)A live concert that transformed ‘stuckness’ to full-on feminine, queer rage and expression.  Distilling the powerfull messages in YARO MILA'S...

WORK IN PROGRESS show about foster care, motherhood and (emotional) neglect. How to blossom when you have never been rooted?(Festival Cement and Toneelschuur Producties, 2025)Catoo is working on an ambitious project about mothers who send their children to foster...

15 years ago Una and Rochelle had a relationship. She was 41, he was 12. They haven't seen each other since. Now, 15 years later, he finds her again.(2022)This disturbing and moving adaptation of Blackbird, based on the play by David Harrower, poses the impossible...

A snippet in the life of a radicalised influencer. (Frascati Productions, 2023) Beautybomb, a radical adaptation of ‘Bombsong’ by Thea Dorn, tells the story of a young influencer who grows up with Instagram as an extension of herself. Through her obsession with the...

A leap of thought that transcends good or evil(Toneelschuur Producties × Theater Oostpool, 2024)As a young girl Nawal got pregnant by refugee Wahab, but had to give up their child. After learning to read and write later in life, she went looking for her child, but got...

A scholarship(Foundation Hiphop Academy X Vandenende Foundation 2024)'In collaboration between Foundation Hiphop Academy and VDEF, three hip-hop talents received a special scholarship in 2024. Amisha Kumra (movement artist), Catoo Lustig (director), and Tim Postuma...

A visual performance about the sensation of melancholia.(2022)In collaboration with a team of scenographers and technical producers, Catoo developed this short visual performance about a famous and elusive sensation: melancholia.  In a misty space with a gigantic...

Re-imagining a classical music concert.(Dutch Student Chamber Choir, 2024)Commissioned by the Dutch Student Chamber Choir, Catoo directed their 50th anniversary show. Together with conductor Lodewijk van der Ree, she worked with 30 talented singers. Under her...