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Kate Bowen is a writer and producer working in theatre and television, based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Her first play Close Quarters was produced by Stockroom (previously Out of Joint) and Sheffield Theatres in 2018, directed by Kate Wasserberg, and was named by the Observer as one of their top ten theatre productions of the year. It was staged by RADA in London in 2019 directed by Zoe Ford-Burnett, and LAMDA, London in 2023 directed by Emily Aboud. Her second play Disfunction was performed at Play, Pie and A Pint in Glasgow and the Traverse Theatre in Glasgow in 2023, directed by Lu Kemp. Her short plays have been performed at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; Play, Pie and a Pint in Glasgow and on STV.
In 2021 she worked with Tod Productions and STV to develop a sixty minute television drama pilot, Storm Warning, for the BBC. She was also part of the first BBC Writersroom Scottish Voices Drama Writers’ group in 2018, and in 2022 became a BAFTA Connect member.
Awards and residencies include a six week attachment to The New Work Department of the National Theatre, London (2022); a Starter for Ten residency at the National Theatre of Scotland (2017); a place on the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme (2016) and the annual Playwrights’ Studio Scotland New Writer's Award (2012) .
Kate has also been a producer for some of the most exciting UK and international theatre, dance and outdoor art companies and artists including Artichoke, Ailie Cohen, Abigail Conway, Angus Farquhar, Barrowland Ballet, Theatre Babel/Graham McLaren, Fire Exit/David Leddy, Dancing Brick, Dance Umbrella, Fish and Game, Lewis Hetherington, Lucy Hayhoe, Made in China, Metis, Necessary Angel, Purni Morrell and Unlimited Theatre.