Kate McLeod is a playwright, lyricist, librettist author and former journalist. Kate’s work can be serious, seriocomic, absurd. Her plays have been performed throughout the northeast around the U.S., in London and Sri Lanka. Her work was performed at New Jersey Rep, New York Theater Winterfest, The Noor Festival, Emerging Artists Theatre and The Flea. She was a participant in the Last Frontier Theatre Conference the final year that Edward Albee hosted it and her play, Dad’s Arrival was one of five that had a public reading with all of the conference lecturers in attendance including Tony Kushner, Edward Albee, Romulus Linney, Lloyd Richards Mel Gussow who participated in the talk back. Dad’s Arrival has had two staged readings in addition to the reading in Alaska.

Kate produced The First and Possibly Only Bacon Theatre Festival in New York City where One Weird Trick, a five-minute opera written by McLeod with composer Rob Hartmann debuted. She was commissioned to write a site specific play for the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln Funeral Train. She has used her skills to assist at-risk girls in telling their story in dramatic form and has coached TEDx speakers to tell their story in an emotional and personal way. As a reporter Kate has worked at leading magazines covering health, automotive and travel. Her reporter skills inform her writing as a playwright.

Currently, Kate is writing a musical with composer Megan Cavallari. They are working toward a reading in 2022.

In New York City, Kate has worked with The Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, America-In-Play, The Flea, Irish American Writers and Artists and Artists Without Walls.

She was invited to the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in June 2019 and continues to attend annually. She contributed to a two-week intensive led by Heather Christian at the Ancram Opera House in Ancram, NY and attended Steve Earle’s Songwriting Camp in Big Indian, NY. She has had playwriting residencies at Jentel in Sheridan, WY and Ledig House in Ghent, NY.

She serves on the board of The League of Professional Theater Women and The Overseas Press Club Foundation which awards 19 scholarships/internships to applicants who want to report international stories. A scholarship, for which she raised all funds, is named after her late husband, Jerry Flint.

Dramatists Guild, MFA, Catholic U., Journalist, Author, Beetlemania, The Car That Captured The Hearts of America.

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