KAT MUSTATEA
is a playwright and technologist whose works for the stage explore hybridity and transformation. She has written plays in which people turn into lizards, a woman has a sexual relationship with a swan, and a one-eyed cyclops tries to fit into Manhattan society by getting a second eye surgically implanted in his head. Her TED talk originates a wholly new thesis about the meaning of machines making art as society shifts radically toward autonomous, algorithmic systems. She studied philosophy at Columbia University and sculpture at Pratt Institute, worked as a software engineer and product manager, and founded a theater company in Berlin. Over the last decade, she has developed cross-disciplinary works for the stage that combine music, dance, and highly emotional theater. Her plays have been performed in New York, Chicago, Berlin, and Oslo. Currently a member of NEW INC, the art and tech incubator at The New Museum in New York City, she is writing a book about live arts in the digital age. Her essays appear in Forbes, The Week, and Hyperallergic.
