Kate Mickere is a playwright, screenwriter and essayist based in Los Angeles.

Her play, NURSE CADDEN, won First Place in the inaugural A is For Playwriting Contest. The script, chosen by a panel led by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage, received a virtual reading that starred Ann Dowd, Lecy Goranson, Celeste Den, Garret Dillahunt and Jenn Lyon. NURSE CADDEN is available to purchase or license via Next Stage Press. It’s also carried at The Drama Bookshop in NYC, where it was a staff pick. Recent plays include VAMPIRE PANIC! (2024 Great Plains Theatre Conference; Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition Semifinalist) and A CHRISTMAS COVEN (Developed at Moving Arts Theatre).

Kate’s playwriting has also been developed/produced by Wild Imaginings, The Vagrancy, The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Ugly Rhino and Meet Cute - LA.

Her screenplay, CAPTURING THE STARS, won a $20,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and received an Honorable Mention for the Sloan/Tribeca Grand Jury Prize.

As an essayist, Kate has been published by The Los Angeles Times, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Belladonna Comedy, XO Jane and The Awl. She’s also written monologues for the collection “Teen Girl’s Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny,” published by Applause Books.

Kate holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University, where she was the recipient of the Steven Bochco Fellowship. She’s an alumna of The British American Drama Academy’s Midsummer in Oxford Program and has studied improv and sketch comedy at The Upright Citizens Brigade.