Kate Tarker

Kate Tarker is an American playwright who grew up bilingually in Germany. She writes offbeat, countercultural plays for fun-loving audiences. 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). Her plays have been developed at The Vineyard Theatre, Ars Nova, New York Theatre Workshop, The Playwrights’ Center, The Lark, Theatre503, and The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, among other places. Kate is the recipient of a Jerome Fellowship, two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, The Vineyard’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, Theater Masters’ Visionary Playwright Award, and she is former Core Writer at The Playwrights' Center. Her writing has been published in The Paris Review and by McSweeney's. The press has called her work "brilliant + highbrow" (NY Mag), "staggeringly original" (SF Chronicle), and "screamingly funny" (NYTimes). MFA Yale.