About the Instructor: Kate Brennan is an artist, educator and creator. She has written a dozen plays and musicals and has taught across the country. Her plays include: What’s in Store: A Swedish Dramedy (University of Central Florida’s Pegasus PlayLab,) #notacult or Camp Hope (Coalescence Theatre Project), The Self-Destruction of Emma James (Lamar University), The Marginals (Montgomery County Community College) and The Wonder in Alice (DreamWrights Center for Community Arts). Her solo musicals include Lost Boys (Dreamwrights), ELFuego (BCKSEET), and Some Assembly Required (BCKSEET). Other works include the Brennan & White projects Book of Wonder (In the Works In the Woods Festival @ Forestburg Playhouse), Anatomy of a Flood (Arcadia University), ALiEN8 (Drexel University’s MPiRP), Clean Slate (Rider University & Passage Theatre Company), Illuminate, and The Bleeding Heart Academy for Girls Presents…(Steel River Playhouse). Accolades include: The Infinity Trilogy (Map Fund Grant), The Self-Destruction of Emma James (O’Neill Semifinalist) What’s in Store (B-Street New Comedy Finalist, O’Neill Semifinalist, Princess Grace Finalist), #notacult or Camp Hope (Judith Royer & Jane Chambers Finalist), The Marginals (Lanford Wilson Finalist) and Lost Boys (O’Neill Semifinalist). She was also named a Finalist for the Jonathan Larson Grant & the Cultural Innovator Award. Publications: ALiEN8 (YouthPLAYS), elevated thoughts, (Literati Press), McSweeney’s, Dramatist, Howlround, The Offing, Slackjaw, Belladonna, Human Parts, Jane Austen’s Wastebasket, Frazzled, The Narrative Arc & more. Member: Dramatist Guild & AEA. Kate is a Designated Linklater Teacher and holds an MFA from UVA. www.katebrennan.org