Career
Thatcher, born Margaret Schneider, began acting at 16 with a small professional company in her hometown, Lansing, Michigan. She went on to work at regional theaters across the country. Her first husband was actor Tim Thatcher.
In the late "70s and early "80s, she acted and directed with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.
She volunteered to write a show based on the poet Lorine Niedecker"s life and work. The result was her first full-length play, She has taught at Columbia College, Lake Forest College.
Although long associated with theatre in Chicago, she was the artistic director of the Boarshead Theatre in Lansing, Michigan 2005 until 2009. She has since started her own professional theater company called Stormfield Theatre, which focuses on new works and works by living playwrights.
Niedecker, Kristine Thatcher"s earnest low-key drama celebrating the life and work of the late poet Lorine Niedecker, contemplates the artist with such intense reverence that its subject emerges an almost saintly symbol of integrity, simplicity and devotion.
