Kate Mickere is a writer based in Los Angeles. Her play, NURSE CADDEN, won First Place in the inaugural A is For Playwriting Contest. The script, chosen by a panel led by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage, received a virtual reading that starred Ann Dowd. NURSE CADDEN is published by Next Stage Press and is available at The Drama Bookshop in New York City, where it was a staff pick.
Kate’s playwriting has also been developed/produced by The Vagrancy, The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Ugly Rhino and Meet Cute – LA.
Her screenplay, CAPTURING THE STARS, won the Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award and received an Honorable Mention for the Sloan/Tribeca Grand Jury Prize.
As an essayist, Kate’s writing has been published by The Los Angeles Times, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Belladonna Comedy, XO Jane and The Awl. She’s also written monologues for the collection “Teen Girls’ Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny,” published by Applause Books.
She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University, where she was the recipient of the Steven Bochco Fellowship. Kate is an alumna of The University of Pittsburgh and The British American Dram