WORLD PREMIER

"Let me imagine, since facts are so hard to come by, what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say."
-Virginia Woolf

Dressed in drag, JUDITH heads to London to save her brother’s reputation. In a patriarchal, politically-charged, and deeply divided nation, she pursues work as a poet and discovers the pleasures and pitfalls of passing as the bard himself.

Gallivanting in and out of character, JUDITH is a solo show that questions identity, ambition, and self-worth.

Katie Bender (she/her/hers) is a playwright, performer, and theater maker.  Her plays include JUDITH, SHE WOLF, THE SURVIVORS/LOS SOBREVIVIENTS, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A SEANCE, and HOWLING, TEXAS to name a few. Filled with games, physical exertion, and a poetic delight in the mundane, her work often examines the surprising ways humans transform within impossible systems. 

Katie’s work has been developed and produced all over the country including at Hyde Park Theater, ZACH, The Alley, Shrewds, EST, Kitchen Dog, The Playwrights’ Center, LAUNCH PAD and Fusebox Festival, THT Rep, New Harmony Project, ACT Theatre and All For One Theater. She is the co-creator of Underbelly, with whom she made ecstatic site-specific performances such as Slip River which received the Critics Table Award for Best New Comedy. Her play Judith received the B.Iden Payne Award for Best New Script. Katie was a Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center and is currently a Core Writer. She received her M.F.A from The University of Texas.