2024 Workshop: Devising Without Limits
Tina Satter is an American filmmaker, playwright, and director based in New York City. She has been described by Ben Brantley in the New York Times as “a genre-and-gender-bending, visually exacting stage artist who has developed an ardent following among downtown aesthetes with a taste for acidic eye candy and erotic enigmas.” Her work often deals with subjects of gender, sexual identity, adolescence, and sports. She is the founder and artistic director of the theater company Half Straddle, which formed in 2008 and received an Obie Award in 2013. Satter has created ten shows with Half Straddle, and the company’s shows and videos have toured throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, Australia, and Asia. In the fall of 2019, she made her Off Broadway debut as a conceiver and director of Is This a Room at the Vineyard Theatre. The play moved to Broadway in 2021. Satter directed the film Reality, starring Sydney Sweeney, a cinematic adaptation of Is This a Room, for HBO. She won a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award in 2016 and a Doris Duke Artist Impact Award in 2014. She received a Pew Fellowship in 2019 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. A collection of three of her plays, Seagull (Thinking of You), with Away Uniform and Family, was published in 2014.