Kate Snodgrass

Kate Snodgrass is the former Artistic Director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and the Boston Theater Marathon; she was StageSource’s 2001 “Theatre Hero” and awarded Boston's Theatre Critics’ 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. Kate studied acting at the London Academy of Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and in NYC with disciples of Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner; she is a proud member of the AEA, AFTRA, and The Dramatists Guild. Author of the Heideman Award-winning, much-anthologized one-act play Haiku (published by Concord Theatricals), Kate's full-length plays include Observatory (1999 IRNE Award); The Glider (Natl. American Critics Association’s “Steinberg New Play Award” nominee and 2005 IRNE Award); The Art of Burning (Huntington Theatre/Hartford Stage, 2023). Her short plays include L’Air Des Alpes, Que Sera, Sera, Critics’ Circle, Wasteland, and Brickwork published by Cedar Press, Dramatic Publishing Company, Bakers Plays, Smith & Kraus, and Applause Theatre Books; one-acts include Bark’s Dream and The Last Bark, both commissioned by Sleeping Weazel. Her radio play Overture can be heard on the Huntington Theatre website in “Dream Boston.”