Kate Conroy (she/they) is an arts activist. She has earned recognition as a playwright, director, performer, visual artist, and curator (see CV and Work Samples.) Often addressing troubling subjects, Conroy's work delivers messages with warmth and levity. Her new play, Neighbors, approaches assisted suicide as a dark comedy detective story that implicates a neighborhood matriarch in more than just color-blind racism. Committed to representing a diversity of queer women and other LGBTQ+ people, Conroy collaborates with a range of fellow artists of New York City's "dyke-aspora." Conroy often presents visual art as elements of performance art and mixes the surreal with the naturalistic in research-based close-to-the heart drama. A foreign-born Irish national from Portland, Oregon, Conroy studied art in Boston, London, Paris, and Avignon before settling in New York City. She earned her master's degree at Tisch Institute of Performing Arts at New York University.
