KATE SNODGRASS (Playwright) Kate Snodgrass is the author of the Actors' Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award-winning and frequently anthologized play Haiku. Her play Observatory Conditions won the Provincetown Theatre Company's Natl. Playwriting Award and the 1999 IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Award for Best New Play. Her play The Glider was produced in workshop at Boston Playwrights' Theatre in November, 2004, and was nominated for the American Theatre Critics' Association's Steinberg Award; the play won a 2005 IRNE Award for Best New Play. As an actor, Kate studied at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art and in NYC. She lectures in Playwriting in the Boston University Graduate School and is a member of A.E.A., A.F.T.R.A., and the Dramatists' Guild. The Artistic Director of both the Elliot Norton Award-winning Boston Theater Marathon and of Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott's Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Kate is also the National Chair of Playwriting with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.