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Kate E. Ryan is a Bay Area-based playwright, curator, administrator and teacher.

She is a member of the OBIE-winning playwrights collective 13P, an Affiliated Artist with Clubbed Thumb, and Co-Founder of Machiqq, a women's experimental writing collective. She teaches playwriting through Studio A.C.T at American Conservatory Theater. Past positions include Co-Curator of the OBIE-winning performance series Little Theatre at Tonic, and Co-Chair of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab.

Her work has been developed or produced in the Bay Area by Crowded Fire, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Just Theater, Playwrights Foundation, and Z Space, and in New York City by Clubbed Thumb, The Flea, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Soho Rep, The Vineyard, Target Margin Theater, and others. Her plays include Card and Gift, Design Your Kitchen, Dot, Everybody’s Dad, A Good Neighbor, Mark Smith, Science is Close, The Girl From Ohio, and Women of Trachis (an adaptation of the Sophocles play).

Dot was recently published in the anthology Unusual Stories, Unusually Told: 7 Contemporary American Plays from Clubbed Thumb.

Her career has received support from sources including the Gerbode-Hewlett Foundations and California’s Creative Capacity Fund. She holds an MFA from Mac Wellman's program at Brooklyn College, where she received a MacArthur Graduate Scholarship.