Author: Kate Tarker

Kate Tarker is an American playwright, librettist, and lyricist who grew up bilingually in Germany. She writes offbeat countercultural plays for smart, fun-loving audiences. Her plays include Montag (Soho Rep., Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe), THUNDERBODIES (Soho Rep.), Dionysus Was Such a Nice Man (The Wilma Theater, FoolsFURY Theater), and Laura and the Sea (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble). Music-theater projects include The Counterfeit Opera (Little Island), Awful Event! (Baryshnikov Arts Center), and A Period of Animate Existence (Pig Iron / Philly Fringe Festival). 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" (New York Magazine), "staggeringly original" (The San Francisco Chronicle), and "screamingly funny" (The New York Times). MFA Yale.