Tate Geborkoff

Tate A. Geborkoff is a queer poet and playwright working and living in Chicago.

As a poet, they’ve had recent publications with Thank You For Swallowing, Birch Gang Review, Words + Pictures, The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, Curbside Splendor, Burningword Literary Journal, Virtual Artist Collective and Juked. While their dramatic poem for three voices, Chicago Afterdark, received a production in Chicago by Artistic Conspiracy.

As a playwright, their play It Rained All Night was selected as a semifinalist for the National Playwrights Conference, and their immersive show Down the Moonlit Path was nominated for a Broadwayworld Chicago Award for Best New Work/New Adaptation. Other productions includes Rebecca and Robbie Do Nothing at a Bar (The Last Abbiefest), A Heart of Tweed (Chicago Fringe Festival), And the Snow Came Down (Step Up Productions). Their play All Around the Mulberry Bush was selected as a semifinalist in the Great Gay Play and Musical Contest.

Their poetry and other dramatic work can also be found on the podcast Psychopompos: a new mythology, where they serve as producer, writer and one of the actors.