KATE BELL
Instructor

Kate Bell is a writer, songwriter, director, performer, and teacher. Recent works includes a production of her play, Estrella, My Refugee , by Committed Theatre Company in New York (November 2005) and direction of the Abrons Arts Center's Urban Youth Theatre's Playwriting Lab 2006. Ms. Bell was also a winner of the 2006 Short Attention Span Playfest; her monologue, "Loot's Prayer" will be performed in July 2006 as a part of the SAS Festival in Massachusetts. Earlier drafts of Estrella, My Refugee were presented on a staged reading (Women Center Stage Festival 2002) and a workshop production (WCSF 2003) at the Culture Project at the Bleecker Street Theatre, produced by Feed the Herd Theatre Company. Ms. Bell received a Farrar Fund Grant for Dramatic Writing to begin writing Estrella, My Refugee at the University of Michigan in 1999; the play received a Hopwood Award for Dramatic Writing 2000. Ms. Bell earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from The University of Michigan in 2000, and has been teaching writing and theatre to student of all ages ever since. Ms. Bell also pursues storytelling as a jazz vocalist with her septet, THE POMA-SWANK; the group released its first CD, Red Sky in Brooklyn, during the summer of 2005.

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