Kato McNickle is a Connecticut-based playwright, director, and artist. Is a graduate of Brown University who holds a degree in Ancient Studies specializing in Greco-Roman and Sanskrit performance. An investigator of new discoveries in cognitive science, continuing to study the connection between art, perception, neuroscience, and performance since beginning this inquiry while at Brown. A part-time instructor of playwriting at the University of Connecticut, and film studies, acting, and comic making at Artreach, Inc. in Norwich, CT. ARIADNE ON THE ISLAND was a 2015 participant in the New Works Festival at Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples, FL, 2010 Clauder Award recipient and 2008 O'Neill National Theater Conference finalist. MINOTAURS. TOREROS. was presented by TalkStory Theater at Smith...
Kato McNickle is a Connecticut-based playwright, director, and artist. Is a graduate of Brown University who holds a degree in Ancient Studies specializing in Greco-Roman and Sanskrit performance. An investigator of new discoveries in cognitive science, continuing to study the connection between art, perception, neuroscience, and performance since beginning this inquiry while at Brown. A part-time instructor of playwriting at the University of Connecticut, and film studies, acting, and comic making at Artreach, Inc. in Norwich, CT. ARIADNE ON THE ISLAND was a 2015 participant in the New Works Festival at Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples, FL, 2010 Clauder Award recipient and 2008 O'Neill National Theater Conference finalist. MINOTAURS. TOREROS. was presented by TalkStory Theater at Smith College in 2014 which was an O'Neill National Theater Conference 2007 finalist. A 2008 Heideman Award finalist with Actors Theatre of Louisville for ABOUT A HUNDRED PANCAKES, for MINOTAURS. TOREROS. A YANKEE TRADER premiered in Los Angeles with The Virtual Theatre Project, and was winner of The Pen is a Mighty Sword Award. IN SEARCH OF A BETTER LIFE WITH ELVIS was presented at UCSD Baldwin New Play Fest receiving the African American Playwriting Award. Part of a 3-week playwrights boot-camp with Paula Vogel at the Atlantic Center for the arts, and under her tutelage wrote like mad. Other playwriting awards include: 2010 Theatre for Youth National Playwriting Competition for CHANCE OF RAIN; Spirit of Broadway Best New Play for JOAN’S VOICES; Gorilla Theater's Inaugural Dramatist Award for TO DIE FOR WANT OF LOBSTER; Robert R. Lehan Award for LEAK; an Ensemble Studio Theatre New Voices Fellowship with FENCERS. SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN was presented as part of the Playwright/Directors Festival of Plays at The Looking Glass Theatre in NYC, and again at Brown University. Published works include GIRLS. IN BOYS PANTS in THE BEST PLAYS FROM AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVALS 2015; The Lodestone Quarterly; The Brown University Classics Journal, and Lemon Puppy Arts Journal; and selections from plays are featured in a collection of Best Monologues for Women from Smith & Kraus. Vice-President of the Mystic Paper Beasts, a Connecticut-based puppetry troupe and partner of The Dragon’s Egg Performance Space. Member of the Dramatist Guild and the Star Wars Fan Club.