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Kate Tull

Job Title: Managing Director
Location: Columbus, OH
Education:

B.A. Theatre Arts - Directing, Marymount Manhattan College (2005); M.F.A Theatre Arts - Dramaturgy, University of Iowa (2010).

Biography:

KATE STOPA TULL recently returned to Columbus, Ohio, her hometown. Kate received her MFA in Dramaturgy from the University of Iowa in May, 2010. Under the guidance of Dr. Art Borreca and Dr. Kim Marra, she was a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses in History of Theatre and Drama and Playscript Analysis. She served as dramaturg on mainstage productions of TARTUFFE, AS YOU LIKE IT, REEFER MADNESS: THE MUSICAL, and her thesis project, THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT. She worked on productions of new plays with many members of the Iowa Playwrights' Workshop, including Mary Hamilton, Kevin Artigue, Jess Foster, Jennifer Fawcett, Andrew Saito, Sheela Kangal, and Lisa Leaverton. She was a presenter on the Dramaturgy Debut Panel at the 2009 ATHE Conference in New York City along with Janine Sobeck (BYU) and Shannon Fitzsimons (Northwestern University).

Prior to graduate school, Kate earned a BA in Theatre Arts concentrated in Directing from Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. She was then on staff at the Lark Play Development Center, the New 42nd Street Studios, and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre.

Since returning to Columbus, Kate has served as a director or dramaturg at MadLab Theatre and Gallery, Actors' Theatre of Columbus, and New Players Theater, and as a teaching artist at Columbus Children's Theatre. Her adaptation of Shakespeare's TITUS ANDRONICUS was produced in Columbus by Shepherd Productions in September 2011. In June 2012, Kate was appointed Managing Director of New Players Theater (www.newplayers.org). Central Ohio's only repertory theatre, NPT features an outdoor summer Festival Season, focused on the works of William Shakespeare, and an indoor Studio Season that features intimate productions of significant and challenging contemporary plays. NPT presented the Columbus premieres of both Yasmina Reza's GOD OF CARNAGE and David Lindsay-Abaire's GOOD PEOPLE in 2012.

Kate lives with her husband, actor and fellow Iowa alum David Tull, in New Albany, Ohio.

Recent Work:

Production dramaturgy at New Players Theater: Yasmina Reza's GOD OF CARNAGE, Bill Irwin & Mark O'Donnell's SCAPIN, Shakespeare's KING LEAR, David Lindsay-Abaire's GOOD PEOPLE.

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