Cat Tate Starmer received the LDI2020 Design Achievement Award for Theatre for the Alley Theatre's production of 1984. Other recent work includes: Hurricane Diane, They Promised Her the Moon (Old Globe), Steel Magnolias, Frankenstein (Guthrie Theater), The Winter's Tale, Murder on the Orient Express (Alley Theatre), Georgia Mertching is Dead (Ensemble Studio Theater, Off-Broadway), Hold These Truths (Barrington Stage, Theatreworks: Silicon Valley), and The Winning Side (Epic Theatre Ensemble, Off-Broadway).

Cat designed the architectural lighting for Plaza 33, a pedestrian plaza near Penn Station in New York City and received two Lumen awards and a SOURCE Award for her architectural work with Focus Lighting. She lectures at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts.