Kate Pressman - kate.pressman@gmail.com

Education

MFA in Playwriting, Columbia University
BFA in Dramatic Writing, SUNY Purchase

Full Length Plays

Pair
Finalist for The Eugene O’Neill Theater National Playwrights Conference
Finalist for Fault Line Theatre’s 2021 Iron’s in the Fire Series
Developed at Columbia University under the mentorship of Lila Neugebauer

Twenty-Six Seconds
Presented at The Park Avenue Armory as part of the Culture in a Changing America Symposium, 2/2019
Workshop production at Shapiro Theatre, 1/2019
Developed at Columbia University under the mentorship of Lynn Nottage

Piano For Four Hands
Columbia@Roundabout New Play Reading Series, Directed by Annie Tippe 7/2021
Semifinalist for Trustus Playwrights Festival, Columbia SC, 4/2015
Workshopped with Play on Words Productions, 12/2012
Staged reading at LABA Theatre, presented by Red Fern Theatre Company, 2/2012

Watch
Closed reading in The Room at New Georges, directed by Martha Banta, 9/2015
Workshopped with director Megan Kosmoski, 2/2014

Selected Short Plays

Somebody Basically Dies
Part of 7x7 at The Tank 10/2020

My Life With Ed Sheeran or, Get Your Fist Out of My Cunt
Co-written with Zizi Majid, part of Femme Fest at Dixon Place 2/2020

What We Expect from our Monsters
Part of We Read Books with InVersion Theatre at The Tank 7/2019

Lonestar’s Wisdom
Finalist for 2017 National Ten-Minute Play Contest at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville 

Boaters
Finalist for 2015 National Ten-Minute Play Contest at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville

23.5º Tilt

The Extremely Grey Line (a site specific piece co-written with Elizagrace Madrone)
Produced as part of the Ice Factory Festival at The New Ohio Theatre, directed by Estefanía Fadul 7/2021

Marta Nesspek Presents… (illustrated digital theater shorts)
Premiering Winter 2021

Television

Cancer Roommate - half hour long pilot, completed Spring 2018

Edith Tate School Coven - hour long pilot, completed Fall 2017

Other Theatre Work

Assistant Director on Isaac’s Eye by Lucas Hnath at the Ensemble Studio Theatre directed by Linsay Firman 1/2013

Literary Assistant and freelance script reader at Ensemble Studio Theatre 2010-2012

Non-equity stage manager/ASM at Ensemble Studio Theatre, South Hampton Writer’s Conference, Red Fern Theatre Company various dates 2010-2012

Resident Playwright at Play on Words Productions 2012-2013 Season