Kristine Thatcher is a playwright, director, and actress. She is best known for her Award-winning plays, Among Friends, Scott McPherson Memorial Award Winner (Victory Gardens Theater); and Emma’s Child, Susan Smith Blackburn and Cunningham Prize Winners, the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, RESOLVE Award for Excellence in the Arts, the After Dark Award for Outstanding New Work, and was published in Smith & Kraus' "Ten Best Plays By Women" (Victory Gardens Theater).

Other plays include Voice of Good Hope (Victory Gardens Theater); Apparitions (Peninsula Players Theatre); The Bloodhound Law (City Lit Theater); Waiting for Tina Meyer (Robin Theatre); and a companion play to Emma's Child, Under Glass (Luna Stage). 

Her first play Niedecker, Thatcher's earnest low-key drama celebrating the life and work of the late poet Lorine Niedecker, contemplates the artist with intense reverence, the subject emerging as a saintly symbol of integrity, simplicity, and devotion (Women's Project Theater).