Theatre Department
Faculty & Staff
Kate Bredeson
Theatre history and literature, dramaturgy, playwriting, directing, avant-garde theatre.
B.A. 1998, Macalester College
M.F.A. 2002, D.F.A. 2006 Yale School of Drama
Reed College 2009-.
Kate Bredeson is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Reed College. She comes to Reed after working in Chicago as Resident Dramaturg at Court Theatre and Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. Previously, she taught in the Theatre department of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has earned awards including a Fulbright in Paris, a residency at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, and fellowships from the Killam Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and the Institut Français de Washington. She is currently working on a book about theatre and performance surrounding the May 1968 events in France, and a series of translations of 1960s French plays. Kate holds an MFA and a doctorate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama, regularly presents at international conferences, and has published articles in Theater, Theatre Symposium, Modern and Contemporary France, The Tennessee Williams Literary Journal, and Time Out Paris. As a dramaturg, she has worked with theatres including the Guthrie, the Yale Repertory Theatre, and the Yale Cabaret.
