Katie Bender

Katie Bender is a playwright, performer, and theater maker.  Her plays Still, Now, The Fault and The Survivors/Los Sobrevivientes are filled with games, physical exertion, and a poetic delight in the mundane, each an unflinching examination of women facing impossible circumstances. Working with Underbelly she co-created Slip River, Church of the Passionate Cat and an immersive adaptation of Alice in Wonderland commissioned by ZACH. With Mars and Reisman she co-created NEXT YEAR PEOPLE which will premiere at Fusebox 2019. In Austin her work has been produced by Theatre Synesthesia, Rude Fusion, ZACH and Shrewd Productions. Nationally she’s worked with The New Harmony Project, Kitchen Dog, EST, NYTW, The Hangar Theater, The Orchard Project, New Victory LabWorks, Icicle Creek Festival, and The Playwrights’ Center, where she was a 2016-2017 Jerome Fellow. MFA: UT Austin.