Kate douglas is a writer, composer & performer.

Plays: The Apiary (Second Stage: NY Times Critic’s Pick, Outer Critics Circle Awards nomination), Tulipa (New York Stage & Film), If I Forget Thee, O Earth (2024-25 The Next Forever Commission Recipient, The Civilians/Princeton University) Mother/Machine, Wonderland (Finalist, Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Award)

Musicals: My Dog is Dead (Ancram Center for the Arts), Centuries starring opposite her co-writers Matthew Dean Marsh & Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez (Ancram Center for the Arts), hag with Grace McLean (New Group FreeFest, Vivace Award), Miss Pennington County starring opposite her co-writer Todd Almond (Ancram Center for the Arts), The Ninth Hour starring opposite her co-writer Shayfer James (The Met Cloisters), Against Women & Music! with Grace McLean (The Civilians)

Performance Credits: Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville U.S. Concert Tour, Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Centuries (Ancram Center for the Arts), Third Rail’s The Grand Paradise (original cast), Kansas City Choir Boy starring Courtney Love & Todd Almond (Premiere & Tour), My Dog is Dead (Ancram Center for the Arts), Fernando Rubio’s Everything by my side (U.S. & digital Premiere), The Ninth Hour (The Met Cloisters), The Imaginary Menagerie (Ars Nova & The McKittrick Hotel)

Awards: Jonathan Larson Grant for Music & Lyrics (2024), Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award (2023), The Leah Finalist (2023), Playwrights’ Center Core Writers Program Finalist (2023), Princess Grace Award in Playwriting Finalist (2022)

Grants: NYSCA Grant (2024), Fair Game Arts Grant (2023), Anna Sosenko Assist Trust Grant (2023), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement (2018), Puffin Foundation Grant (2018, 2022)

Immersive Work: Middlemist Red (2023 WriteNow Selection), Extinct (2018 LMCC Creative Engagement Grant Recipient), The Tree Protection Agency

Choral Pieces: Natural Environment (“Re-Imagining Conservation,” Creative Conserve)

Member/Alum: Colt Coeur Resident Artist, Recording Academy Musical Theatre Mentorship, Maestra Mentorship, BMI Musical Writing Advanced Workshop, Civilians R&D Group, The Orchard Project Greenhouse & Draft Lab, Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellows Program, Gingold Theatrical Group Speakers’ Corner, Chen Dance NewSteps, Letter of Marque Ensemble Playwright Lab

Residencies: SPACE on Ryder Farm Creative Residency & Institutional Residency, New York Stage & Film, Swale House on Governor’s Island, Millay Arts, New Victory Theater LabWorks, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Ancram Center for the Arts PlayLab, Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, the Writer’s Colony at Goodspeed, New Musicals Lab at Ferguson Center, Juno Leadership Residency at The Omega Institute, Turkey Land Cove Foundation

Other Work: Associate Artist at The McKittrick Hotel (home of Sleep No More), faculty at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts, guest artist with the National Theatre Institute

Teaching Artistry: Musicians Without Borders, Gibney Dance, Lincoln Center Education, Ping Chong + Company

Education: NYU Tisch (BFA Drama/Minor Applied Theatre)

Additional Training: Horticulture Certificate in Sustainable Garden Design (NYBG, 2023), NY Master Naturalist, NY Citizen Tree Pruner, training with artists such as Erica Fae, Christopher Bayes & L’Ecole Jacques LeCoq