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Katherine Craft

Panelist, Industry Panel

Katherine Craft is a Texas native with extensive experience as a playwright and theatre maker. She has an MFA in Screenwriting from the  University of Texas at Austin, and holds an MA in Applied Drama from Goldsmiths College at the University of London.

She’s the creator and writer of Kappa Delta Crypto, an Indigo Studios production and Snapchat Original Series, which is currently streaming  on Snapchat.

She received a 2017 HBOAccess Writing Fellowship, and her pilot Halfway, written as part of the program,  premieres at Tribeca Film Festival  in April 2019. She has written and produced several short narrative films, including June (2018), which won first place in the HBO 2018 Asian Pacific American Visionaries showcase, and  Charlotte and Charlie (2018), which is a finalist in the PBS Online Film Festival. Her one-act play DIY was staged in April 2018 as part of the Down for #TheCount series at the Bishop Arts Theater in Dallas, Texas. ​

​She also founded Conspire Theatre, a nonprofit that uses theatre to work with women during and after incarceration, and was a teaching artist for arts education organizations in Austin, Chicago, and London. She was the Hotline Coordinator for the Lilith Fund, an abortion fund in Austin, TX, for six years. She currently splits her time between LA and Austin.