Kate Bell is a writer, songwriter, director, performer, and teacher. Her plays have been seen in New York at Baruch College’s Bernie West Theatre and at the Culture Project. She most recently collaborated with Committed Theatre Company on a production of her play, Estrella, My Refugee. Ms. Bell earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from The University of Michigan in 2000. While in Ann Arbor, Kate received a Farrar Fund Grant for Dramatic Writing as well as two Hopwood Awards; one in fiction and the other in playwriting. Ms. Bell also pursues storytelling as a jazz vocalist with her septet, THE POMA-SWANK. The group’s first CD, Red Sky in Brooklyn, was hailed for “superb musicianship with the ability to communicate directly to the listener” in All About Jazz. Ms. Bell teaches playwriting, acting, vocal music, and songwriting to students of all ages