Katharina Cota is from From Modesto, California. She joined Central West Ballet in 2013. She has distinguished herself as Justine Moritz in René Daveluy's Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, as the Waltz of the Flowers Queen in The Nutcracker and as Sophie De Vries in Jan Clark Fugit and René Daveluy's Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Katharina Cota has also distinguished herself in the Arabian Pas de Deux, Spanish Lead, Dewdrops, Lead Russian, Jewel Doll and Ballerina Doll in The Nutcracker, as a James Bond Sugar Rum in Nutcracker in Jazz (choreographed by Nicole Firpo Felver), as well as in the repertoire created by René Daveluy such as in the Minuetto from L'Arlésienne, as a Betrothal and a Friend in Coppélia, in Solitary Workers, in Dragons and Drums and Castile Jazz from Nutcracker in Jazz, in the Village Duet from Swan Lake, and in Rat Pack in Revue. Other noteworthy peformances include Giselle, She Only Remembers, Pirates, Cowboys and Damsels, A Ballet for Marie, The Irish Washerwoman, Love Duets, Pictures at an Exhibition, L'Arlésienne, CWB Rocks and King Of Pop.