Katrin Arefy is an essayist and playwright. Her essays and playscripts have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including North Dakota Quarterly, Water~Stone Review, Fleas on the Dog, Free State Review, Meat for Tea: Valley Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Tusculum Review, and Some Scripts Literary Magazine.

 

Her plays have been premiered in New York City, performed in California, reached the semifinalist round at Ivoryton Playhouse’s inaugural Women Playwright’s Initiative, selected for inclusion at the Iranian Drama Festival in Heidelberg, Germany, and Funny Shorts in Florida. Her latest theatre work, The Portrait of an Angel, a Lion, a Monster was premiered in Manhattan, NY, in January 2022 and was well received by the audience and NY critics in a review posted on the Theater Times site. 

 

Katrin's play A Massacre was included in the 2023 season of Golden Thread Production's ReOrient Festival in San Francisco. Her essay “Blowing Dandelions” was published in volume eighteen of the Tusculum Review and  included in series editor Robert Atwan’s  list titled Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2022, published in the collection Best American Essays 2023.

 

Katrin is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and New Play Exchange. Her plays and creative nonfiction are also available on her website www.katrinarefy.com