Theatre Department
Faculty & Staff
Kate Bredeson
Theatre history and literature, dramaturgy, playwriting, directing, gender and theatre.
B.A. 1998, Macalester College
M.F.A. 2002, D.F.A. 2006 Yale School of Drama
Reed College 2009-.
(503) 459-4639 | kbredeso@reed.edu
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. Her chapter "L'Entrée libre à l'ex-théâtre de France: the Occupation of the Odéon and the Revolutionary Culture of the French Stage" appears in the 2011 book May 68: Rethinking France's Last Revolution. As a dramaturg, she has worked with theatres including the Guthrie, the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Yale Cabaret, and Hand2Mouth Theatre, and in 2011 won the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas residency grant.