- Cat Ellington wrote her first song, titled "The Baby's Song", in 1981 when she had been just 10 years old.
- Before it's official name change in 2005, Cat Ellington's Black Jaguar Music Company was named Black Jaguar Songs.
- In her creative hat as a casting director, it took Cat Ellington two years to cast the independent feature film Dual Mania.
- As a poet, Cat Ellington published a poetic production that pays honorable tribute to the South Side of her native Chicago.
- Cat Ellington is the founder of three companies, including The Black Jaguar Music Company in 1982, The Centaur Casting Agency in 1996, and Quill Pen Ink Publishing in 2005.
- Though given her mother's surname (Hart) at birth, Cat Ellington would later include her father's surname, Ellington, in both her personal and professional lives.
- Cat Ellington moonlights as a professional art model.
- Veteran stage actor and Joseph Jefferson Award nominee Joseph Plummer was Cat's personal choice to portray the lead character of "Dr. Steve Livingston" in Joseph Strickland's Dual Mania.
- In 1995, Cat Ellington arranged an audition for actress Kiele Sanchez to read for a role in "Dual Mania" that eventually went to another actress.
- Director Joseph Strickland proposed to Cat Ellington in front of Chicago's Buckingham Fountain in the summer of 1994.
- Cat Ellington met former Miss Illinois 1994, and Pretty Rosebud star Chuti Tiu in the early fall of 1994 during an Asian Human Services assembly at the Walt Disney Magnet School in Chicago, where the two women discussed roles for Tiu in both Dual Mania and the theatrical production of Jade Monkey King.
- Cat Ellington is a beauty school dropout.
- Cat Ellington cast screen and voice over actress Ali Goodman in Joseph Strickland's Dual Mania as the "Woman in Red Dress".
- As a casting director, Cat Ellington lists Marion Dougherty, Robi Reed, Lynn Stalmaster, Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins, and Mike Fenton as being among some of her many inspirations in the field.
- Cat Ellington's award-winning official website is nicknamed the 'Boutique Domain'.
- It was Cat Ellington who had insisted that the Monarch Theater Project of Chicago cast actress Sherrice Eaglin in the role of "Jacquelyn" for the Company's stage production of "A Horse of a Different Color" in 1998.
- When Cat Ellington called on actor Martin Shannon to read for the role of "Dr. Stan Franklin" in Dual Mania, he had been working as a cast member in the Chicago production of Tony n' Tina's Wedding.
- Chewing bubblegum while writing songs and poetry helps Cat to relax and focus during the creative process.
- The first instrument Cat Ellington ever bought for herself was a harmonica in the summer of 1983.
- Cat Ellington once worked as a junior buyer for a Lerner New York department store.
- Cat Ellington came this close to enrolling in DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, in September of 1994.
- Cat Ellington has been collecting designer handbags since junior high school.
- Both the fashion industry and her being a fashionista inspired Cat Ellington to characterize each one of the twenty-four genres of her song catalogue as a "Collection.".
- Cat Ellington is a huge fan of Lifetime Movies.
- Cat Ellington struggled with extreme obesity as a preteen.
- The single "On the Go," from smooth jazz saxophonist Vandell Andrew's 2014 Billboard chart-topping debut EP "Turn It Up," had its title suggested by Cat Ellington.
- Cat Ellington is a collector of both modern and vintage charm bracelets.
- At age 13, Cat Ellington became an ardent beauty buff, and is self-taught in the art of makeup application.
- Kappa Publishing Group, makers of the world-famous word search and crossword puzzle editions, created the gift of a personalized word search puzzle for Cat Ellington - which featured both her personal and business associations - in 2015.
- In her job as production assistant on the film Dual Mania, Cat Ellington's duties included, but were not limited to: hiring the catering company, selecting parts of the wardrobe and accessories for her entire cast, wig styling, and operating the phones to keep both the cast and crew, as well as the media, updated on the production schedules.
- Cat Ellington served as a team member of the fundraising committee for the Minnesota DFL in 1989.
- Cat Ellington is the originator of the song synopsis, poetry synopsis, and micropoetry brief-each one created to summarize the inspirational plot outlines of her song works and poetry productions issued by the Black Jaguar Music Company and Quill Pen Ink Publishing.
- Cat Ellington has been a coffee drinker since the age of 12.
- In January of 2017, Cat Ellington founded Reviews by Cat Ellington, a sophisticated literature blog that was specifically designed to produce the vast collection of her personally penned book reviews.
- Due to her multiple professions that span four divisions of creativity in music, movies, art, and literature, Cat Ellington has been christened "The Hardest Working Woman in the Arts" by her network of collaborative affiliates.
- An avid bookworm, Cat Ellington lists Carl Hiaasen, John Grisham, Bianca Sloane, Elmore Leonard, James Patterson, Stephen King, Jordan Belcher, Jim Thompson, John Lutz, Dean Koontz, Thomas Perry, James Baldwin, Sean Costello, Ashley Fontainne, Jasinda Wilder, Iceberg Slim, Jackie Collins, Donald Goines, John Saul, Pamela Samuels Young, John Ellsworth, Steve Martini, David Baldacci, Shalini Boland, Roger Stelljes, and Matt Shaw as some of her all-time favorite authors.
- Cat Ellington dreamed of working for the great Eunice W. Johnson as an Ebony Fashion Fair model during her teens.
- Cinderella is Cat Ellington's most-liked fairy tale.
- As an eleven-year-old, Cat Ellington had been personally chosen by her educators to render a spoken word performance of Paul Laurence Dunbar's legendary poem, "We Wear The Mask," for her school's Black History Month assembly.
- Drinking one gallon of water, and doing two hundred sit-ups, are both part of Cat Ellington's daily regimen.
- Cat Ellington's Centaur Casting Agency was originally founded as the Piranha Centaur Casting Agency.
- Montblanc pens are the unofficial official writing instruments of Cat Ellington's Black Jaguar Music Company and Quill Pen Ink Publishing entities.
- It had been "Snortin' Whiskey" by Pat Travers that inspired Cat Ellington to try her hand at the electric guitar in 1985.
- There are four types of men with whom Cat Ellington has an unbridled fascination: saxophone players, Navy SEALs, Marines, and movie directors.
- At age 14, Cat Ellington landed her first job working for the Control Data Corporation of Minnesota.
- Cat Ellington is both a songwriting and publishing member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
- Legendary R&B/Funk songstress Chaka Khan is Cat Ellington's girl crush.
- Cat Ellington is an elected member of the Chicago Writers Association.
- On Saturday, April 28, 2018, Cat Ellington released Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 1, the first work of nonfiction to be published under the Quill Pen Ink Publishing imprint.
- On Saturday, June 8, 2019, "I Do," a song written by Cat Ellington to appear on the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for Dual Mania, was selected as a Best 6 Semi-Finalist contender in the category for Best Song by the jury panel at the Vegas Movie Awards June 2019 event in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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