Judy Tate is a playwright, teaching artist and television writer. She’s won 4 Emmys and a WGA award. A professional actor for many years, she’s an alumna of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts conservatory program. Most recent productions: Second Sight (American Slavery Project, developed in the unit) Haunted Files (American Slavery Project) Slashes of Light (Civic Ensemble, The Kitchen Theatre); Fast Blood (Civic Ensemble, ASP co-pro). Black Women and the Ballot (ASP), In the Parlour (National Theatre, Civic Ensemble, ASP).

She’s Producing Artistic Director of The American Slavery Project (ASP), a theatrical response to revisionism in American discourse around enslavement and its aftermath. www.AmericanSlaveryProject.org
She conceived and produced ASP’s first original work Unheard Voices, a collectively written monologue piece with music which brings to life the enslaved African descended men, women and children who lived in colonial New York and are buried in the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. Since its inception in 2011, ASP has produced work annually and was one of the first companies to turn to Enhanced Audio Drama when the pandemic darkened theatres across the country. ASP’s Audio drama, “Black Women and the Ballot”, three short plays about rebellions large and small that Black women have mounted to progress voting rights has been viewed over 5K times on American Slavery Project’s YouTube channel. ASP’s “Reverberations Series” can be viewed on the website.

She is Founding Artistic Director of Stargate Theatre, which employs justice-involved teenagers to write and perform their own original work for the stage. She’s led hundreds of activity-based workshops for a variety of outreach programs. She has taught young people in schools, shelters, prisons, townships and from reservations. She teaches at NYU and Drew University.