kate douglas

Kate Douglas is a writer, composer and performer.

Plays/Musicals: The Apiary (O’Neill Playwrights Conference, 2022), Against Women & Music! (with Grace McLean, The Civilians), The Lucky Few (with Todd Almond), Wonderland (Finalist, Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Award), The Ninth Hour (with Shayfer James, The Met Cloisters),

In Development: Destination Wonderful, My Dog is Dead

Awards: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement Recipient (2018), Two-Time Puffin Foundation Grant Recipient (2018, 2022), Princess Grace Award in Playwriting (Finalist), Page 73 Fellowship (Semi-Finalist)

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, 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, Millay Arts, New Victory Theater LabWorks, Rhinebeck Musicals, Ancram Opera House 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, signed with Kobalt Music Publishing

Performance Credits: Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Third Rail’s The Grand Paradise (original cast), Kansas City Choir Boy starring Courtney Love & Todd Almond (Premiere & Tour), 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)

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), Ilan Lev Method Practitioner, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, NY Master Naturalist, NY Citizen Tree Pruner, training with artists such as Erica Fae, Christopher Bayes & L’Ecole Jacques LeCoq