Tina Satter

Tina Satter
Satter at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival
Born
Hopkinton, New Hampshire
Occupation(s)Playwright, theater director
Years active2008–present
WebsiteHalfstraddle.com

Kristina "Tina" Satter (born 1974) is an American filmmaker, playwright, and director based in New York City. She is the founder and artistic director of the theater company Half Straddle, which formed in 2008 and received an Obie Award grant in 2013.[1] Satter won a Guggenheim in 2020.[2] Satter was described by Ben Brantley of 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."[3] Her work often deals with subjects of gender, sexual identity, adolescence, and sports.[4][5]

She won a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2016),[6] and a Doris Doris Duke Artist Impact Award in 2014. In 2019, she received a Pew Fellowship.[7] Satter has created 10 shows with Half Straddle, and the company's shows and videos have toured to over 20 countries in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and Asia.[8] She made her Off Broadway debut as a conceiver and director in fall 2019 with Is This a Room at the Vineyard Theatre.[9] A collection of three of her plays, Seagull (Thinking of You), with Away Uniform and Family was published in 2014.[10] The text for her show Ghost Rings was published in 2017 by 53rd State Press along with a vinyl album of the show's songs.[11]

  1. ^ "2013 | Obie Awards". Obie Awards. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  2. ^ "Q&A with Guggenheim Fellow Tina Satter". Theater and Dance. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  3. ^ Brantley, Ben (2015). "Tina Satter's 'Ancient Lives' Is at the Kitchen". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  4. ^ "Interview: Tina Satter - Girlhood, Adolescence and Framing Intangible Moments". Contemporary Performance. 2016-03-31. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  5. ^ Soloski, Alexis (2015). "Tina Satter Readies the Stage for 'Ancient Lives'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  6. ^ "Tina Satter :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  7. ^ "Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Awards $8.4 Million to Philadelphia's Cultural Sector". www.artforum.com. 21 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  8. ^ "Tina Satter Talks Half Straddle and Ghost Rings". pastemagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
  9. ^ "Vineyard Theatre Announces New Works by Tina Satter & Antoinette Nwandu". Broadway.com. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  10. ^ "TINA SATTER: INTERVIEW | B O D Y". bodyliterature.com. 9 January 2014. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  11. ^ "Tina Satter Talks Half Straddle and Ghost Rings". pastemagazine.com. 2017-01-09. Retrieved 2019-11-23.