Kate douglas is a writer, composer & performer.

Plays: The Apiary (“a bright, strange and mesmerizing marvel” -NY Times Critic’s Pick, Second Stage), Tulipa (NYSCA Grant Recipient), Hag with Grace McLean (Vivace Award), Wonderland (Finalist, Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Award)

Musicals: Centuries with Matthew Dean Marsh & Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez (World Premiere 2024, Ancram Center for the Arts), Against Women & Music! with Grace McLean (The Civilians), The Lucky Few starring opposite her co-writer Todd Almond (Ancram Opera House), The Ninth Hour starring opposite her co-writer Shayfer James (The Met Cloisters)

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)

Awards: Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award (2023), The Leah Finalist (2023), Playwrights’ Center Core Writers Program Finalist (2023), Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist - Music/Lyrics (2022), Princess Grace Award in Playwriting Finalist (2022), Modern Works Festival Finalist (2023), Page 73 Fellowship Semi-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)

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 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: Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville U.S. Concert Tour, 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, Fertility Awareness Educator (2024), NY Master Naturalist, NY Citizen Tree Pruner, training with artists such as Erica Fae, Christopher Bayes & L’Ecole Jacques LeCoq