Kristine Thatcher


Kristine Thatcher is a playwright, director and actress.

Life

Thatcher, born Kristine Marie Schneider, began acting at 16 with a small professional company in her hometown, Lansing, Michigan. She went on to work at regional theaters across the country. Her first husband was actor Tim Thatcher, at which point she created the stage name of Margaret "Maggie" Thatcher. In 1985, while married to her second husband, actor Tom Blair, she met David Darlow while the two performed in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, at the Northlight Theatre in Chicago. Darlow became her third husband.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she acted and directed with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. She volunteered to write a show based on the poet Lorine Niedecker's life and work, which became the play, Niedecker.
She has taught at Columbia College, Lake Forest College. Although long associated with theatre in Chicago, she was the artistic director of the Boarshead Theatre in Lansing, Michigan 2005 until 2009. Soon after she founded the Stormfield Theater in Lansing; the theater closed in 2012.

Awards

Among Friends, Emma's Child, Voice of Good Hope.

Works