Kate Cortesi is a Brooklyn- and Boston- based playwright from Washington DC. Full-length plays include: Ten Grand, Let’s Pretend We’re Married, Love, One More Less, A Patron of the Arts, Great Kills, and Is Edward Snowden Single? Productions and development: Playwrights Horizons, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Jungle Theater, South Coast Rep, The O’Neill Theater Center, The Pool, Marin Theatre Company, Keen Theater Co, Single Carrot Theater, Primary Stages, WP Theater, Colt Coeur, Dorset Theatre Festival, Jackalope, Premiere Stages, Second Thought Theatre, Bardo Theatre Company, Players’ Ring, The Lark and the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Awards and honors: New Dramatists resident playwright, Princess Grace Award Winner, NYFA Award, three time Kilroy’s List, Huntington Playwriting Fellow, O’Neill Theater Center Artist in Residence, Columbia University’s Karen Brownstein Award, Hear Me Out Monologue Competition Winner, and Philip Seymour Hoffman Relentless Award Finalist. Published by: Dramatists Play Services and Samuel French. Commissions: Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Rep and Keen Theater Company. In Film and Television, Cortesi has written original and adapted features and pilots for Lionsgate, AMC, Universal Pictures, Amy Pascal, Working Title, and Fremantle.