Kate Bredeson (she/her) is a theatre historian, a director, and a dramaturg. Her project as a scholar is to research, write about, and practice the ways in which theatre can be a tool for radical activism and protest. Her first book, Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May ’68 is published by Northwestern University Press (2018; finalist, George Freedley Award). Her translation, with Thalia Wolff, of the Théâtre de l’Aquarium’s 1968 play The Inheritor will be published by Northwestern in Fall 2024. Her four volume book The Diaries of Judith Malina will be published by Northwestern in 2026. Kate has earned fellowships and awards including a Beinecke Visiting Research Fellowship at Yale; a Fulbright in Paris; residencies at Loghaven (Tennessee), Mission Street Arts (New Mexico), La Maison Dora Maar in Ménerbes (France), the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio (Italy), the Camargo Foundation in Cassis (France), Caldera (Oregon), Playa (Oregon), Tao House (California), and the New York Mills Artist Residency (Minnesota); fellowships from the New York Public Library, Killam Foundation, Mellon Foundation, American Philosophical Society, the Institut Français de Washington, and the American Society for Theatre Research; and a grant from the Furthermore Foundation. She is the recipient of a 2017 NEH summer stipend. She is an alum of the Mellon Summer School of Theatre and Performance Research at Harvard University and the Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents. Kate regularly presents at national and international conferences and has published her writing in Theatre Journal, TDR, Theater Topics, Theatre Survey, Theater, Review: the Journal of Dramaturgy, Theatre Symposium, Modern and Contemporary France, The Tennessee Williams Literary Journal, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, and Time Out Paris. She has essays in the books The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism (Routledge, 2023), Postdramatic Theatre and Form (Bloomsbury, 2019), The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade (Michigan, 2017), The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy (Routledge, 2014), International Women Stage Directors (U. Illinois, 2013), and May 68: Rethinking France’s Last Revolution (Palgrave, 2011). She is Vice President for Awards for the American Society for Research, and has previously served on the organization’s executive committee. As a dramaturg, she has collaborated with the Court Theater in Chicago (Resident Dramaturg 2008-09), Guthrie Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale Cabaret, Portland Playhouse, and since 2016 has been working with choreographer Tahni Holt. Kate is a winner of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) 2017 Bly Fellowship, and the 2011 LMDA residency grant. Kate has taught at the University of Chicago, Dalhousie University, Yale University, and in the Hollins University MFA Playwriting program. Kate holds an MFA and a doctorate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama. She is Professor of Theatre at Reed College.