Fiction
Leslie Epstein
Ha Jin
Allegra Goodman
Poetry
Robert Pinsky
David Ferry
Louise Glück
Rosanna Warren
Playwriting
Kate Snodgrass
Melinda Lopez
Ronan Noone
Richard Schotter
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Kate Snodgrass - Playwriting
Kate Snodgrass is the Artistic Director of Boston Playwrights' Theatre and of the Elliot Norton Award-winning Boston Theater Marathon (which she also co-founded). She runs the MFA Playwriting Program at Boston University in the renowned Graduate Creative Writing Department. Kate is a former Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Chair of the National Playwriting Program, a former Vice President of StageSource, Inc., and a member of Actors' Equity, A.F.T.R.A., and the Dramatists' Guild. She is the 2001 recipient of the prestigious “Theatre Hero” Award from StageSource in Boston and is a Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company.
Her most recent play, The Glider, premiered at Boston Playwrights' Theatre and was nominated for the National American Critics Association's "Steinberg New Play Award.” The play won the 2005 IRNE award for "Best New Play." Snodgrass is the author of the Actors' Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award-winning and much-anthologized play Haiku. The play has been performed around the world and translated into German, Portuguese, and Gaelic; the film “Haiku” premiered at the 1995 Boston Film Festival. Snodgrass's play Observatory Conditions won an IRNE Award for "Best New Play," the 1998 Provincetown Theatre Company's Playwriting Award, and the "Best Play Award" at the 2000 Southeast Theatre Conference. Snodgrass was a member of the former Circle Repertory Theatre Lab. Her short plays L’Air Des Alpes, Que Sera, Sera, Critics’ Circle, and Walden-October 18 have been published/anthologized by Cedar Press, Dramatic Publishing Company, Bakers Plays, and Night Owl Press, respectively, and have been performed across the country.
As an actor, Snodgrass studied at Kansas University, Wichita State University, The London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA), and in NYC with disciples of Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner. She has appeared at Lincoln Center, in regional theatres, and on national television. Her directing credits at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre include Blackout and Prayin’ Hands by Tom McClellan, Michael Moss’s Twosome, Kimberly Brown’s Re: Pirth, Karen Zacarias’s The Barechested Man, Joyce VanDyke’s Love in the Gulf, and Patricia Smith’s Life After Motown. Snodgrass has taught at the Wellesley College, Brandeis University, M.I.T., Suffolk University, Lesley University, and The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, among others. A Virginia Center for Creative Arts fellow, she holds two B.A. degrees from Kansas University and Wichita State University, respectively, and a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from Boston University. In 2007, she was recognized for "Outstanding Achievement in Theater Arts Education" by North Shore Music Theatre and as "Theatre Educator of the Year" by the New England Theatre Conference in 2008.
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