Kate Tarker

Kate Tarker is a lecturer in CMS/W and Music & Theater Arts. She's a practicing playwright who grew up bilingually in Germany. Kate is currently working on a climate crisis play through the Next Forever Initiative: a commission and residency with Princeton University's High Meadows Environmental Institute, The Lewis Center for the Arts, and The Civilians. Kate's produced plays include Montag (Soho Rep., Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe), THUNDERBODIES (Soho Rep.), Dionysus Was Such a Nice Man (The Wilma, FoolsFURY), and Laura and the Sea (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble). The press has called her work "brilliant + highbrow" (New York Magazine), "staggeringly original" (The San Francisco Chronicle), and "screamingly funny" (The New York Times). Her plays have been developed in theaters all over the US and in London, at The Vineyard Theatre, The Wilma, Ars Nova, New York Theatre Workshop, The Playwrights' Center, The Lark, Soho Rep., Theatre503, and The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, among others. She is the recipient of a Jerome Fellowship, The Vineyard's Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, Theater Masters' Visionary Playwright Award, and the Kennedy Center's National Science Playwriting Award. Kate has completed residencies at MacDowell Colony, Tofte Lake Center, and SPACE at Ryder Farm. Her writing has also been published in The Paris Review and in the McSweeney's anthology, I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom. She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.