Kate Cortesi

Kate Cortesi is a playwright born and raised in Washington, D.C. who now lives between New York City and the Boston area. Cortesi’s full-length plays include Love (Sky Cooper New American Play Prize, Marin Theater Company, Ojai Playwrights Conference, published soon by Dramatists Play Service), Great Kills (Princess Grace Award), A Patron of the Arts (Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project, directed by Mike Donahue), One More Less (NYFA Recipient, Relentless Award Finalist, Playwrights Horizons New Works Lab directed by Robert O’Hara), and Is Edward Snowden Single (The Jungle Theater, The Pool Plays at The New Ohio, Platform Presents Playwright’s Prize Finalist). Her audio play Radio Nowhere (directed by Taylor Reynolds, starring George Salazar) was commissioned and produced during the pandemic by Keen Company and is available wherever you listen to podcasts. Cortesi’s plays have been developed and presented across the US and internationally, including in translation. Awards: Princess Grace Award, Sky Cooper New American Play Prize, NYFA, Columbia University's Karen Brownstein Award, Golden Ear from the Hear Me Out Monologue Competition. Commissions include Playwrights Horizons and South Coast Rep. Cortesi is a Huntington Playwriting Fellow and a resident playwright at New Dramatists.