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Kate Tarker

KATE TARKER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  represented by Ross Weiner

Kate Tarker's plays include: "the Green" (recipient of the Kennedy Center ACTF National Science Playwriting Award), "Laura and the Sea," "An Almanac for Farmers and Lovers in Mexico," "Concertina," and "Paper Cut." Her work has been produced or developed by Yale, 59E59 Theaters, LOCAL lab, the Theater Masters National MFA Playwrights Festival in Aspen/NYC, and the National New Play Network at the Kennedy Center. She has received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Kaspar T. Locher Scholarship, and a Stephen B. Timbers Scholarship. At the Yale Cabaret, she recently directed "all of what you love and none of what you hate;" she also worked on the devised piece, "Cat Club." She has mentored playwrights at the New Haven Co-Op High School and will be teaching at Wesleyan this fall. Kate is a member of the Dramatists Guild. B.A. Reed College. M.F.A. candidate, Yale School of Drama '14.

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below is a list of Kate Tarker's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Almanac for Farmers and Lovers in Mexico, An         Concertina         Green, The         Laura And the Sea         m.a.h. (The Museum Play)         Paper Cut         Thunderbodies

Almanac for Farmers and Lovers in Mexico, An

Synopsis:
Flora and Pele are so very in love, and just a few days away from their Mexican wedding. Only hitch to getting hitched: Pele seems to have transformed into a bird. Flora is keeping him in a little cage, negotiating with the judge, and trying to piece her cosmos back together.

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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

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Workshop, NNPN MFA Workshop at the Kennedy Center     2013

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Comedy

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Concertina

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Green, The

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Laura And the Sea

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It's company outing day, and Laura, one of the top travel agents of her generation, is having the best / worst day of her life. So much so that she decides to end it all. Afterwards, her colleagues try to piece things together on a memorial blog, but how do you mourn someone you didn't know that well? A comedy about depression, or: a treatise on travel agents who don't travel.

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Workshop, Playwrights' Center     2015

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dark comedy

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m.a.h. (The Museum Play)

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Paper Cut

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A mother turns to desperate action, and flowery language, when her son is not admitted to a competitive college. Part of theater Masters' sixth annual Take 10, an evening of six 10-minute plays from award-winning MFA graduate playwriting students across the country as part of its National MFA Playwrights competition.

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aka Take Ten

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Theatre Row Studio
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036     01 May 2012

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Thunderbodies

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The war is finally over. General Michail proposes to Grotildeso she skips ahead and plans the inevitable, but festive, divorce. Meanwhile, the weather is playing tricks on people, as is The President, and Grotilde's son won't accept the armistice. In this comedy of no manners, everyone is normible (both normal and terrible all at once)

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University, Yale School of Drama Carlotta Festival of new Plays     2014

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adventure comedy

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