Judy Tate
Ensemble Member
JUDY TATE is a proud member of Ensemble Studio Theatre for nearly 20 years. Her plays, productions and/or workshops include Fast Blood (EST, Passage Theatre, Hartford Stage, The Lark, Epic Theatre Ensemble); Slashes of Light (EST Going to the River, CAP21 and The Black and Latino Playwrights festival); Sex in the Kitchen (EST Octoberfest 2010, CAP21 2011-12) , The Point and Mistaken for Genius (both at The Women’s Project) and The Argot. Theatre awards include: Manhattan Theatre Club playwriting fellowship; the New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award; and the 2011 Women in Arts and Media Collaboration Award (honored finalist). Her television writing includes Another World, Days of Our Lives and As the World Turns. She’s won four Emmys and a Writers’ Guild of America award.
A professional actor for many years, Judy has worked in theatres throughout the United States and in Southern Africa. As a teaching artist she’s worked with playwriting students in alternative schools, prisons, shelters and from reservations, both independently and with MTC, TDF and Lincoln Center Institute. It’s her 14 years of work with high school inmates on Rikers Island that inspired her TV pilot, Lockdown High. She is an alumna of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts conservatory program where she studied with Stella Adler and was an honors graduate receiving the Founder’s Day Award, Seidman Award and Beinecke Award for excellence in acting and academia. Judy is a co-founder of The American Slavery Project which celebrates and promotes the voices of African American playwrights focused on the era of the Civil War and slavery and seeks to counteract the revisionism about the era in our social and political discourse.