Kate Cortesi is a Brooklyn and Boston based playwright from Washington, D.C. Love (World Premiere, Marin Theatre Company, directed by Mike Donahue) was developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference, WP Theatre/Colt Coeur Parity Fest, UC Santa Barbara Initiative for New and Reimagined Work, and at South Coast Rep. Love is the winner of MTC's Sky Cooper New American Play Prize and was featured on the Kilroys List. Cortesi's examination of how the American psyche has been deformed by racist police violence, One More Less is NYFA grant awardee, a Relentless Award finalist, and was presented at the Playwrights Horizons New Works Lab directed Robert O’Hara. A Patron of the Arts, Cortesi's fine arts and drug dealing play set in a Northern California trailer, was produced at the Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project, directed by Mike Donahue, and again in Rome at the KIT Italia In Scena Festival. Patron was developed at The Lark, South Coast Rep and the Colt Coeur Parity Fest. Is Edward Snowden Single?, Cortesi's most formally innovative work, was the inaugural play of the Dorset Theatre Festival’s Pipeline Series in 2018. Edward Snowden will have its New York premiere with The Pool 2020, a consortium of playwrights producing their plays in rep at the New Ohio Theatre in the fall of 2020. Citizens United, Kate’s one act for young people about the Supreme Court ruling commissioned by Keen Theater, was performed at Theatre Row in 2019 and is published by Samuel French. Great Kills, winner of the 2014-15 Princess Grace Award, tells the story of an ambitious Staten Island achiever who lies about her family background to impress colleges. Great Kills is in development as a feature film to be written by the playwright. Kate is a proud resident of New Dramatists and a 2020-2022 Huntington Playwriting Fellow. She has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons and South Coast Rep. and writes for screens as well. For more, visit katecortesi.com.