The Glider: Playwright

Katherine (Kate) Snodgrass

Biography

Katherine Snodgrass is the Artistic Director of both the Elliot Norton Award-winning Boston Theater Marathon and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott’s Boston Playwrights' Theatre. The author of the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman Award-winning play \ Haiku her plays have been translated into Spanish, German, and Gaelic. Kate’s play Observatory , was awarded the Provincetown Theatre Company’s Natl. Playwriting Award and the 1999 IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Award for Best New Play. Her play The Glider , produced at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre in 2004, was nominated for the American Theatre Critics Assn.’s Steinberg Award and won a 2005 IRNE Award for Best New Play. As an actor, Kate studied at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art and in NYC. She lectures in Playwriting in the Boston University Graduate School and is a member of A.E.A., A.F.T.R.A., and the Dramatists' Guild. Her numerous teaching credits include Boston College, Wellesley College, American Repertory Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, Brandeis University, and M.I.T. Acknowledged by StageSource in 2001 as a Theatre Hero Kate is the National Chair of Playwriting at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and a Playwriting Fellow at the Huntington Theatre Company.