Kate Fodor

Kate Fodor is a 2013 Guggenheim fellow in playwriting. Her comedy Rx was recently produced Off-Broadway by Primary Stages and will have its Los Angeles premiere in January 2014. Her plays have also been produced by Playwrights Horizons, Epic Theatre Ensemble, San Jose Repertory Theatre, London’s Courtyard Theatre, and Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre Company, among others. She has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2008. Kate’s play Hannah and Martin received the Kennedy Center’s Roger L. Stevens Award, a Joseph Jefferson Citation, an After Dark Award, and a finalist position for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. 100 Saints You Should Know received the National Theatre Conference’s Stavis Award and was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award, as well as being named one of the 10 Best Plays of the year by Entertainment Weekly and Time Out New York. The plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and have been anthologized and excerpted in a number of volumes from Smith & Kraus. Kate’s work has been developed at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Hartford Stage and Centre Theater Group. She has been named one of “Eight to Watch” by The New York Times and has received commissions from Chautauqua Theater Company, Center Theater Group and The Playwrights’ Center, where she was the recipient of the 2011-2012 McKnight National Residency.  (Oct 2013)           

• “IT’S A BEAUTY! THE CAST IS EXQUISITE. LOIS SMITH IS LUMINOUS. If KATE FODOR is not a name you recognize, this is a play you should know.”

  — Linda Winer, Newsday

• “★★★★. A GENTLE, LOVELY NEW PLAY WITH A FIRST RATE CAST.”

  — Adam Feldman, Time Out New York

• “Fodor’s play glows with the sense that the keenest evidence of the search for God is in the homiest details.”

  — Ben Brantley, The New York Times

• “A thoughtful study in spiritual longing. Beautifully acted under ETHAN McSWEENY’s direction.”

  — Michael Sommers, The Star-Ledger