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Kate Bassett

Kate Bassett
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Kate Bassett in 2014
Born (1967-02-11) 11 February 1967 (age 50)
Cambridge, England
Occupation Journalist and author
Nationality British
Genre Theatre criticism and arts journalism

Kate Bassett (born 11 February 1967) is a British journalist who writes for The Times newspaper as a theatre critic.

She was educated at the Hertfordshire and Essex High School, won a Bernard Sunley Scholarship to Westminster School in London, before reading English Literature at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, on a Manners Scholarship.

She worked as the theatre critic for the Independent on Sunday from 2000 to September 2013 and, prior to that, as a theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph (from 1996) and The Times (1993 to 1996), and as deputy theatre editor of City Limits. Her features and reviews have also covered comedy, dance, books, film and opera, with further publications including Time Out, the New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and the Literary Review. She has featured on BBC Radio's Night Waves and On Air, and BBC London 94.9.

She has twice chaired the Perrier Comedy Awards (now the Edinburgh Comedy Awards) and been a judge on Equity's Clarence Derwent Awards, the Verity Bargate Award for emerging playwrights, the TMA Theatre Awards, the Peter Brook Empty Space Awards, the European Theatre Convention Awards, the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year Awards, and Channel 4's So You Think You're Funny Awards. She hosts and takes part in platform talks at the National Theatre and elsewhere.

Her book In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller was favourably reviewed. In 2013, it was shortlisted for the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography; the Theatre Book Prize (Society for Theatre Research); and the 2013 HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize.


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