Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Artistic Director receives Outstanding Teacher Award from Kennedy Center
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Artistic Director Kate Snodgrass was honored at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival on April 17 in recognition of her work as a playwright and teacher. The inaugural Matt Stitt Award for Outstanding Teacher of Playwriting was presented to Snodgrass for her playwriting, mentoring and in “appreciation for how [she has] changed the American theatre.”
Three Boston Playwrights’ Theatre graduate students were also presented with awards at the Festival. Masha Obolensky won the Ten-Minute Play Award with her play Girls Play. Walt McGough won the Ken Ludwig Scholarship and his play Two Socks Discuss Losswas one of the four finalists in the Ten-Minute Play competition. McGough’s play Priscilla Dreams the Answer was a finalist in the John Cauble Short Play Award. Will Fancher won the Rosa Parks Playwriting Award with his play The River was Whiskey.
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Started in 1969 by Roger L. Stevens, the Kennedy Center's founding chairman, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) is a national theater program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide which has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the United States. The KCACTF has grown into a network of more than 600 academic institutions throughout the country, where theater departments and student artists showcase their work and receive outside assessment by KCACTF respondents.
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Kate Snodgrass is the Artistic Director of both the Elliot Norton Award-winning Boston Theater Marathon and of Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott’s Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. The author of the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman Award-winning play Haiku, her play Observatorywas awarded the Provincetown Theatre Company’s Natl. Playwriting Award and the 1999 IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Award for Best New Play. Her play The Glider, produced at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre in 2004, was nominated for the Association of American Theatre Critics’ Steinberg Award and won a 2005 IRNE Award for Best New Play. As an actor, Kate studied at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art and in NYC. She lectures in Playwriting in the Boston University Graduate School and is a member of A.E.A., A.F.T.R.A., and the Dramatists’ Guild. Her numerous teaching credits include Boston College, Wellesley College, American Repertory Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, Brandeis University, and M.I.T. Acknowledged by StageSource in 2001 as a “Theatre Hero,” Kate is a former National Chair of Playwriting at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and a Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company.
