Kate

Kremer

Courses taught

• Playwriting I + II
• Acting

Research Interests

I am an interdisciplinary artist, playwright, and publisher. My plays are characterized by a commitment, not to formal categories, but to strategies of autobiography, collaboration, and bricolage. I often use archives, particularly legal records, as sites for addressing the ways that our ethics, feelings, and intimacies are conditioned by the systems that we live and love within. By reappropriating the records of the racial-capitalist, military-industrial state, I aim to create new forms—spaces in which to imagine and rehearse possibilities that don’t yet but might one day exist.

My plays have been produced at JACK in Brooklyn, the Tank, the Flow Chart Foundation, the Figge Art Museum, the Public Theater, Dixon Place, SFX Fest, the Motor Company, the Bushwick Starr Reading Series, the Wild Project, Brooklyn College, and Stagefemmes. I've been a finalist for the Princess Grace Award and the Dennis and Victoria Ross Foundation Award, shortlisted for the Tom LaFarge Award and the Leslie Scalapino Award, and received an honorable mention for the Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers. My work has been published by 53rd State Press, Ugly Duckling Presse, and is forthcoming in Fence and The Drama Review.

In 2017, I took over the editorship of the experimental play publishing organization 53rd State Press from founding editor Karinne Keithley Syers. 53rd State publishes writing that expands our notions of the theatrical in performance and in print. 
I received my MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College, where I studied with Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney.

Publications

• "The Intimacy." Fence, Issue 42 (Fall 2024).
• uncollected trash collection, 53rd State Press, 2022.
• “Term of Art,” Emergency Index, Vol. 10, Ugly Duckling Presse (2023).