Cate Wiley
she/her/hers
New York, NY
Moved to NYC just in time for Covid! So far so good.
Biography

 

Cate Wiley’s most recent play, Two Truths and a Lie, will be produced by Theatre Unbound in Minneapolis in 2021, as a hybrid live/filmed/Zoom. It had a successful staged reading at the Boulder Ensemble Theater Company in 2019 and is currently a finalist for B Street Theater’s comedy festival (California), and Up Theatre’s 2021-22 season (New York). The Liberation received a staged reading at the HRC Showcase in New York and a world premiere at The Ballard Underground in Seattle. This play uses the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris as the background for an exploration of sexism and the shaming of women. An earlier work, Sheltered, is based on true stories by homeless women with whom Cate volunteered for several years, and has received readings in Denver and other Colorado cities. It was a finalist for the 2019 Fratti-Newman Political Play Contest in New York. Note to Self, short play on suicide prevention, was performed by The Hive Collective in Provo, Utah, will be published in 2021 by Smith and Krauss, and won Itinerant Theatre’s 2020 “Life Inspired” contest (Louisiana). The Wine Snob, a site-specific two-hander commissioned by And Toto Too Theater Company in Denver, was recorded for a Colorado Public Radio feature. Cate studied community-based theater at Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles, and playwriting at the Kenyon Playwriting Conference. She holds academic degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cate taught American and British drama and women writers in the English Department at the University of Colorado Denver, and has recently moved to New York City. She is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild of America and the WOW Café Theater Collective. Her scripts can be found on the New Play Exchange.