Kelli Tatum is a Minnesota-based playwright and theater artist whose work explores themes of power, hypocrisy, shame, and community accountability. She earned a degree in theater and spent fifteen years with The Refreshment Committee (St. Paul, MN), where she served as associate artistic director, resident choreographer, playwright, actor, producer, and office manager. She later co-founded WideSpot Performing Arts Center and has worked with Black Dirt Theater and (lumin)theater lab. THE SCARLET LETTER, produced by The Refreshment Committee and (lumin)theater lab, is her first solo full-length play and reflects her ongoing interest in examining patriarchy and spiritual abuse through contemporary storytelling. She is currently working on her first novel.