Kristine Thatcher (born 1950) is a playwright, director and actress.
Thatcher, born Kristine Marie Schneider, began acting at 16 with a small professional company in her hometown, Lansing, Michigan.
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.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she acted and directed with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.
[2][3] Among Friends (winner of the 1997 Scott McPherson Memorial Award), Emma's Child (winner of the 1995 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a 1997 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, the 1997 RESOLVE "Award for Excellence in the Arts," the 1997 Cunningham Prize for Playwriting from DePaul University, and the 1997 After Dark Award for Outstanding New Work), Voice of Good Hope (nominated for 2000 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work).