Kate Mulley
Kate Mulley is an internationally acclaimed playwright, librettist/lyricist, producer, and dramaturg whose work explores gender, power, place and desire through a feminist, and often historical, lens. Her work has been developed and performed on four continents and online by the cell theatre, Home of the Arts, Balcony Arts, The Tank, Hayes Theatre Company, Luna Stage, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Dixon Place...
Kate Mulley is an internationally acclaimed playwright, librettist/lyricist, producer, and dramaturg whose work explores gender, power, place and desire through a feminist, and often historical, lens. Her work has been developed and performed on four continents and online by the cell theatre, Home of the Arts, Balcony Arts, The Tank, Hayes Theatre Company, Luna Stage, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Dixon Place, The Flea, Theatre503 and the Soho Theatre, among others.
Her musical Razorhurst, written with composer Andy Peterson, was commissioned by and had its world premiere at Luna Stage. Razorhurst, which musicalizes the lives of Sydney gang leaders Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine, received its Australian premiere at the Hayes Theatre in Sydney. Outlaw, a musical about the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly written with Andy Peterson, has been developed at Catwalk Art Residency, FORGE Fuel, and Barn Arts Collective and performed at Dixon Place and Dartmouth College. Female Complaints, a musical about Inez Burns, a pre-Roe San Francisco abortionist, written with Tina deVaron, has been developed at Catwalk Art Residency, Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat and VoxLab at Dartmouth College.
Her play The Tutor, originally produced in the New York International Fringe Festival, has been translated into Mandarin and performed at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre and published in Mandarin.
Kate has worked for Columbia University School of the Arts, Playscripts, Inc., Nick Hern Books, Soho Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop and has published headlines in The Onion. She is currently editing a book about the Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theater slated to be published by Routledge.
Kate has been an Artist-in-Residence at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat, Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency and Arteles Creative Center (Finland), a Guest Artist at Montclair State University, a Playwriting Fellow at Shanghai Theatre Academy and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Theater and History, received an MA in Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College, London, and an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. Kate is a writing mentor with Girls Write Now and the PEN Prison Writing mentorship program. She is a founding member of Vox Theater and proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Originally from Boston, Kate now lives in New York.