Kate Snodgrass
Kate Snodgrass is an American theater director and playwright. She is the artistic director of Boston Playwrights' Theatre.[1][2][3] She is a Professor of the Practice of Playwriting in the English Department of Boston University.[4] Snodgrass won the 2012 Elliot Norton Award for Excellence.[5]
She co-founded the Boston Theater Marathon which also has won the Elliot Norton Award. Snodgrass is a former Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival National Chair of the Playwriting Program, a former Vice President of StageSource, Inc., and a member of Actors' Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and Dramatists Guild of America.[4]
Snodgrass is a playwriting Fellow at the Huntington Theatre Company. She is the author of the 1995 play Haiku (Heidemann Award, anthologized and translated into German, Gaelic, Portuguese), Observatory Conditions (Independent Reviewers of New England Award), and The Glider (2004) (Independent Reviewers of New England Award, American Association of Community Theatre's Steinberg Award Nomination), among others.
As a teacher and educator, Snodgrass has received StageSource's Theatre Hero Award, the Leonides A. Nickole Theatre Educator of the Year Award for Excellence, and the Milan Stitt Award for Outstanding Teacher of Playwrighting from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.[6] Her short plays L'Air Des Alpes, Que Sera, Sera, Critics' Circle and Wasteland have been published/anthologized by Cedar Press, Dramatic Publishing Company, Bakers Plays, and Smith & Kraus Publishers, respectively.[4]
Snodgrass holds B.A. degrees from Kansas University and Wichita State University, and a master's degree in Creative Writing from Boston University.[4]
Plays
- Haiku
- The Glider
- Brickwork
- The Seduction
- Parallelogram
- Rubik's Goldberg Variation
- New Hampshire
- OZ
- Critics' Circle
- Observatory Conditions
- L'Air Des Alpes
- Que Sera, Sera
- Spaghetti Al Dente
- Prairie Echoes
- Asylum
- How I Saw the Light
- Circus[7]
References
- ↑ Byrne, Terry (10 March 2015). "Sleeping Weazel confronts identity in poetry, play trio". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ↑ Brown, Joel (8 May 2014). "Theater Marathon features a most competitive duo". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ↑ "Going Out". The New York Times. 5 June 2005. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 "Boston University Profile". Boston University. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
- ↑ Murray, Larry (16 April 2012). "Eliot Norton Award". berkshireonstage.com. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
- ↑ "Huntington Theatre". huntingtontheatre.com. Retrieved 2015-09-06.
- ↑ "Lesley University". Retrieved 2015-09-06.