TINA SATTER
Theatrical Representation
Rachel Viola, United Talent Agency
(212) 659-2600 || ViolaR@unitedtalent.com
Film Representation
Geoff Morley, United Talent Agency
(212) 659-2600 || MorleyG@unitedtalent.com
Biography
Tina Satter is a writer and director for theater and film.
Born Hopkinton, New Hampshire.
Lives and works in New York City.
Selected Works as Writer/Director:
2019
Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription
UMS, Walker Art Center, Vineyard Theatre (Off Broadway Premiere), Mladi Levi Festival, Noorderzon Festival, Annenberg Center/FringeArts, The Kitchen
2018
“Kathy Acker: “In the beginning there was a young girl…”
Performance Space New York (Curator/Artist)
2017
“Here I Go, pt. 2 of you”
The Kitchen (Curator/Designer)
2016
Ghost Rings
PICA TBA Festival, La Chappelle Theatre, Luminato Festival, American Realness Festival, New York Live Arts
2015
Ancient Lives
The Kitchen
Theater Company
Greencard Pictures
2013
House of Dance
Culturgest, Kyoto Experiment, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, PS122 COIL Festival, Abrons Art Center
Seagull (Thinking of you)
Theatre de Gennevilliers, Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art, Theatre Garonne Théâtre d'Arras, NEXT Festival, Mass Live Arts, PS122 COIL Festival, MASS MoCA, New Museum, Abrons Art Center, Prelude Festival
2012
Away Uniform
Culturgest, Incubator Arts Project
2011
In the Pony Palace/FOOTBALL
FringeArts, Automne en Normandie, Bushwick Starr
2010
Nurses in New England
Ice Factory
2009
FAMILY
Incubator Arts Project
2008
The Knockout Blow
Incubators Arts Project
Publications:
Half Straddle: Ghost Rings Text and Vinyl, 53rd State Press, March 2017
Seagull (Thinking of you) with Away Uniform and FAMILY, 53rd State Press, December 2013
Selected Interviews and Talks:
2020
“Tina Satter Talks Is This A Room,” Extended Play: The Civilians, February 18, 2020
“How Whistleblower Reality Winner’s FBI Interrogation Became Powerful Theater (Tina Satter + Billie Winner-Davis),” Fourth Wall, Walker Art Center, January 6, 2020
2019
“Playing Reality Winner: Turning an FBI Interrogation Into Theater,” NBC News, January 24, 2019
“Checking in with Tina Satter: An Interview,” The Kitchen, January 4, 2019
2017
“Half Straddle: Here I Go: pt. 2 of You,” The Kitchen, March 2017
“Tina Satter Talks Half Straddle and Ghost Rings,” PASTE Magazine, January 9, 2017
2016
“Tina Satter by Richard Maxwell,” BOMB Magazine, April 21, 2016
“Girlhood, Adolescence and Framing Intangible Moments,” Contemporary Performance, March 31, 2016
2014
“Tina Satter: Interview,” BODY Literature, January 3, 2014
2013
“Tina Satter,” I Interview Playwrights, October 25, 2013
“Tina Satter by Katherine Cooper,” BOMB Magazine, October 20, 2013
2012
“Theatre is a Hustle,” MASS MoCA, December 11, 2012
“Tina Satter/Half Straddle: Schmoetics,” Prelude Festival, The Segal Center, October 3, 2012
Awards and Grants:
2020
Obie Award Special Citation, Conceiving and Direction of Is This A Room
Drama Desk Award Unique Theatrical Experience for Is This A Room
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Guggenheim Fellowship, Playwriting
2019
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellow-in-Residence
2016
Foundation for Contemporary Art Grants to Artists, Performance Art/Theater
2014
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Impact Award
2013
Obie Award Grant
Academic and Visiting Artist Positions, 2020-2012:
Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting (Fall 2020), College, Harvard University, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College, Bowdoin College, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Michigan, Yale University, Reed College, Princeton University, Fordham University
Selected Residencies, 2020-2012:
Orchard Project Episodic Lab, Yaddo, Headlands Center for the Arts, Orchard Project, New Museum for Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, SPACE on Ryder Farm
Education:
Attended Brooklyn College Graduate Playwriting Program
M.A.L.S., Reed College
B.A., Bowdoin College