Tina Satter
| Tina Satter | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hopkinton, New Hampshire |
| Occupation | Playwright, theater director |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Website | Halfstraddle.com |
Kristina "Tina" Satter is a New York City-based playwright and director of Downtown theater. She is the founder and artistic director of the theater company Half Straddle, which has produced several of her plays. Her work largely deals with subjects of gender, sports, and adolescence. A book of three of her plays was published in 2014.
Biography
Satter is originally from Hopkinton, New Hampshire. She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where she received a M.A. in Liberal Studies.[1] In 2004, Satter moved to New York, where she now resides, and attended Brooklyn College's M.F.A. playwriting program run by Mac Wellman.[2]
Works
- Ancient Lives
Satter's most recent show, which opened in January 2015 at The Kitchen, centers around a group of young women who follow their teacher into the woods to start a seclusive life dedicated to literature.[3]
- House of Dance
A collaboration with New York City Players, House of Dance portrays an hour in the lives of four people searching for intimacy in a small town tap dance studio.[4]
- Seagull (Thinking of you)
A reimagining of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. This production originally ran as part of COIL festival in New York in 2013.
- Away Uniform
An avant-garde telling of two friends and a brother who run field hockey drills and remember old memories. It opened in 2012 at Incubator Arts Project.
- In The Pony Palace/Football
A female and transgender cast portrays a high school football team.[5] It opened at the Bushwick Starr in 2011.
Other works include Nurses in New England from 2010, Family from 2009, and The Knockout Blow from 2008.
References
- ↑ Barton, Randall S. (October 30, 2013). "Tina Satter (Thinking of You)". Reed Magazine.
- ↑ Soloski, Alexis (February 17, 2015). "Mac Wellman, a Playwriting Mentor Whose Only Mantra Is Oddity". The New York Times.
- ↑ Brantley, Ben (January 12, 2015). "Plunging Teenage Angst Deeper Into the Woods". The New York Times.
- ↑ Brantley, Ben (October 27, 2013). "A Tap-Dancer in Training With Hopes as High as Falling Stars". The New York Times.
- ↑ Zinoman, Jason (February 16, 2011). "Gender Blitz on a High School Gridiron". The New York Times.