American playwright, grew up bilingually in Germany. Plays include Montag (Soho Rep., Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe), THUNDERBODIES (Soho Rep.), Dionysus Was Such a Nice Man (The Wilma, FoolsFURY), and Laura and the Sea (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble). Kate's plays have been developed at: The Vineyard Theatre, The Wilma, Ars Nova, New York Theatre Workshop, The Playwrights’ Center, The Lark, Soho Rep., Theatre503, and The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, among other places. She is the recipient of a Jerome Fellowship, The Vineyard’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, and Theater Masters’ Visionary Playwright Award. She is currently under commission from Playwrights Horizons and Theater Masters. Tarker has completed residencies at MacDowell Colony, Tofte Lake Center, and SPACE at Ryder Farm. Kate has also been published in The Paris Review and in the McSweeney’s anthology, I Know What’s Best For You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom. BA Reed College. MFA Yale School of Drama.