kate snodgrass

Kate Snodgrass is the author of the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman Award-winning and much-anthologized play Haiku. The play has been performed around the world and translated into German, Japanese, and Gaelic; the film “Haiku” premiered at the 1995 Boston Film Festival. Her plays Observatory and The Glider (nominated for the Natl. American Critics Association’s “Steinberg New Play Award”) won the 1999 and the 2005 Boston IRNE Awards for “Best New Play,” respectively. Her one-act plays Bark’s Dream and The Last Bark were produced by Boston’s Sleeping Weazel. Her short plays L’Air Des Alpes; Que Sera, Sera; Critics’ Circle; Code Blue; Wasteland; and Brickwork have been published/anthologized by Cedar Press, Dramatic Publishing Company, Bakers Plays, Smith & Kraus, and Applause Theatre Books, respectively. A Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company (“HTC”), her short radio play Overture may be found on their “Dream Boston” website. The HTC and Hartford Stage Company produced her full-length play The Art of Burning in 2023, directed by Melia Bensussen. Kate is the former Artistic Director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and co-founder of the Boston Theater Marathon, now in its 26th year. Kate was designated a “Theatre Hero” in 2001 by StageSource and received Boston’s Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence in 2012; she is the recipient of a 2015 Tanne Foundation Award for her passion and commitment to the theatre. She studied acting at the London Academy of Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and in NYC with disciples of Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner, and Voice with Robbie McCauley. Kate is a proud member of the AEA, AFTRA, and The Dramatists Guild.

MORE ABOUT ME:
I love to revise. I feel most myself when I’m in the rehearsal room because Theatre is Family, first and always. I keep doing Theatre looking for another transcendent moment—like in Brooks’ Midsummer Night’s Dream, or Shepard’s Fool for Love, or Bernstein’s Candide, or Shaffer’s Equus, or Sondheim’s Passion, or Parks’ Topdog/Underdog, or Lepage’s Far Side of the Moon, or Churchill’s A Number, I could go on….that proves we are none of us alone.

WHAT I'M WORKING ON:
A play about forgery--artistic and otherwise.

KEYWORDS:
Mystery, Political, Nature, Equality, Climate, Environmental, Adaptations, Fable/folktales, Young Audiences, Science, Mythology, Farce, Gender, and Death (always).