Kate Tarker's plays include Thunderbodies, An Almanac for Farmers and Lovers in Mexico, Concertina, m.a.h. (a museum play), and Paper Cut. At the Yale Cabaret, she recently directed all of what you love and none of what you hate, and performed an improvised, clown-inspired show, The Most Beautiful Thing in the World. Her work has been produced or developed by Primary Stages/ESPA at 59E59 Theaters, LOCAL Lab in Boulder, the Theater Masters National MFA Playwrights Festival in Aspen/NYC, and the National New Play Network at the Kennedy Center. She is the recipient of the Kennedy Center's 2012 National Science Playwriting Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, and two Stephen B. Timbers Scholarships (Yale). She has mentored playwrights at the New Haven Co-Op High School and taught playwriting at Wesleyan. Kate is a member of the Dramatists Guild. She earned her B.A. from Reed College and her M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. She is currently a Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. While in residence in 2018, she completed a draft of her new play, Montag. She received the Vineyard Theatre's Paula Vogel Award in 2017.
Kate Tarker
Studios
Veltin
Kate Tarker worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…