First Name
Kate
Middle Name
Last Name
Tarker
City
Country
State or Province
Job Title
writer, dramaturg, professor
Biography
Kate Tarker is an American playwright, librettist, and lyricist who grew up bilingually in Germany. She writes offbeat, countercultural plays for fun-loving audiences. Kate also teaches, at universities and through her website, and provides freelance dramaturgy.
Kate's plays often explore subjects such as language, gender, bodies, and national identity. Her 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).
Kate's 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, and Theater Masters’ Visionary Playwright Award. Kate has completed residencies at MacDowell Colony, Tofte Lake Center, and SPACE at Ryder Farm, and she has been published by The Paris Review and McSweeney's Press. MFA Yale, where she studied under Paula Vogel.
Kate's plays often explore subjects such as language, gender, bodies, and national identity. Her 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).
Kate's 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, and Theater Masters’ Visionary Playwright Award. Kate has completed residencies at MacDowell Colony, Tofte Lake Center, and SPACE at Ryder Farm, and she has been published by The Paris Review and McSweeney's Press. MFA Yale, where she studied under Paula Vogel.
Areas of Expertise
Language(s) spoken
English, German
Interested in freelance opportunities
Yes