Judy Tate
Writer
Judy Tate is a dramatist who has won four Emmys and a Writers Guild award for her work in television. She is a playwright and the producing artistic director of the ASP Arts Collective which contextualizes enslavement and its aftermath within the framework of Colonialism through drama and visual arts. Her plays, Fast Blood, Slashes of Light, Sex in the Kitchen, Mistaken for Genius, In the Parlour, and others have all been produced/presented in theatres around the country and at the National Theatre in London. Theatre awards include: Manhattan Theatre Club’s playwriting fellowship; the New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award; and WAMCO collaboration award finalist. She’s a 30 year member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, Founding Artistic Director of the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Stargate Theatre, a project that pays justice-involved young people to create and perform original work for the stage. She has written about Stargate Theatre in Routledge’s “Applied Theatre with Youth” edited by Lisa S. Brennan, Chris Ceraso, and Evelyn Diaz Cruz. Judy has taught students around the world in schools, jails, South African Townships, and from American Indigenous communities. She has both a BFA and a Masters in Arts+Politics from in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She also teaches playwriting at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and Theatre Arts at Drew University.