Drea Kato is a writer who likes to frame stories in a way that equally captures what is putrid and what is luminous. Her favorite song she wrote on the ukulele at MacDowell is called "Girls Don't Like Me." She finished writing a full-length play called Eradicated, a story about a man who programs his deceased lover's personality into a chatting app, exploring the way technology can help and hinder grief, trauma's effect on memory, and the validity and impact of experiences – real or imagined. She also revised her first full-length play Divine, a story about a young girl who grows up being abused by a satanic cult leader. Divine explores the way trauma damages the relationship to the self and others and how it inhibits the cohesion of different aspects of one's being, which is investigated through the meeting of metaphorical horror characters that represent various facets of the main character's dismantled consciousness. Drea graduated with her B.A. in theatre arts from CSU Fullerton.
Andrea Kato
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Andrea Kato worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…