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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. 〔The Telegraph (), The Economist (), The Financial Times (), Bloomberg News (), The Observer (), The Jewish Chronicle (), The Times ()〕 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. 〔Kate Bassett ''In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller'', Oberon Books (2012) ISBN 978-1-84-943451-5〕 It emerged at the end of July 2013 that Bassett was soon to leave ''The Independent on Sunday'', as the newspaper was reducing its arts coverage.〔Josh Halliday ("Independent titles to cut back on arts coverage" ), guardian.co.uk, 29 July 2013〕 The paper made its established team of arts reviewers redundant on 1 September 2013, a fact that provoked much media comment.〔Mark Shenton ("The arts journalism cull begins" ), thestage.co.uk, 31 July 2013. Simon Tait ("Critical point" ), 1 August 2013. Ismene Brown ("Only the artists can save the arts critics" ), theguardian.com, 2 August 2013〕 In September 2014 she was appointed associate professor of creative writing in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kate Bassett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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