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Kate Snodgrass

American theater director and playwright

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Kate Snodgrass was a theatre director, playwright and theater director.

Kate Snodgrass is an American theater director and playwright. She was the artistic director of Boston Playwrights' Theatre until 2022. She is a professor of the practice of playwriting in the English Department of Boston University. Snodgrass won the 2012 Boston Theatre Critics Association's Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence.

Along with playwright Bill Lattanzi, she co-founded the Boston Theater Marathon which also has won the Elliot Norton Award. Snodgrass is a former Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival National Chair of the Playwriting Program, a former vice president of StageSource, Inc., and a member of Actors' Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and Dramatists Guild of America.

As a teacher and educator, Snodgrass has received StageSource's Theatre Hero Award, the Leonides A. Nickole Theatre Educator of the Year Award for Excellence, and the Milan Stitt Award for Outstanding Teacher of Playwriting from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Her short plays L'Air Des Alpes, Que Sera, Sera, Critics' Circle and Wasteland have been published/anthologized by Cedar Press, Dramatic Publishing Company, Bakers Plays, and Smith & Kraus Publishers, respectively.

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Education
University of Kansas, Wichita State University, Boston University, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences
Employers
Boston University

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Kate Snodgrass

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