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Kate Aspengren

KATE ASPENGREN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Abrams Artists Agency  

Kate Aspengren's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America

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below is a list of Kate Aspengren's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Blue Yonder         Dear Mrs Martin         Flyer         House Of Wonders         Mother's Day

Blue Yonder

Blue Yonder
a familiar adage states, "Men may work from sun to sun, but women's work is never done." In BIue Yonder, the audience meets twelve mesmerizing and eccentric women including a flight instructor, a firefighter, a stuntwoman, a woman who donates body parts, an employment counselor, a professional softball player, a surgical nurse professional baseball player, and a daredevil who plays with dynamite among others. Through the monologues, each woman examines her life's work and explores the career that she has found. Or that has found her.

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1st Produced:
Illinois Shakespeare Festival    03 Aug 1998

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Genre:
Monologues and Scenes

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  12            Other:  can be performed by 4f, or any number in between

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Dear Mrs Martin

Synopsis:
Barbara Martin is surprised when her new cleaning woman, Gloria, begins writing her personal note-stories about her son who plays football for an inept team and becomes a hero when he catches his cleats in his pants and cartwheels over the goal line, or about her trips to her psychic and her belief in the afterlife. Barbara gets caught up in the letter writing and a warm friendship develops between these two women from different social and economic spheres. When Barbara's husband dies unexpectedly, it is Gloria who is able to provide support and understanding. Told through letters, Dear Mrs Martin is a play about friendship, family, grief and hope.

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1992   -

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Flyer

Synopsis:
While the Project Mercury astronauts carried America's hopes and dreams into space, NaSa was busy training another elite corps of pilots, some with more flight experience than John Glenn and company. None of this group soared into space; they were women and here is their story. Flyer focuses on the hopes and dreams of one young pilot in particular. Fran Douglas rises above family scorn and her fiancee's condescension to join the women's corps. action scenes involving NaSa, Congress and Fran's family are intertwined with dream sequences about an intrepid black barnstormer, Bessie Coleman, who died in the 1920s performing an aerial feat. Bessie warns Fran about the many obstacles she will have to overcome to achieve her dream a dream left unfulfilled when NaSa pulled the plug on training women for space flight

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1st Produced:
Bank Street Theatre, Ny    2005

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 2001   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  to play 21 roles

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House Of Wonders

Synopsis:
Holly Edwards' teen novels are so popular that her publisher has commissioned her to write an adult book for the Famous Foremothers series. Holly tries to write about her great aunt who was a madam in alaska but soon realizes that all she knows about Myrta Jane Wonders are some old family stories. She employs a Ouija board to summon the long dead madam, who proceeds to set her niece straight about the afterlife before helping with the book. Myrta returns with her ex husband, reputedly a gangster, and two women who allegedly worked at Myrta's House of Wonders. Problems arise when these visitors do not conform to Holly's expectations. House of Wonders provides a hilarious look at the evolution of family stories and a unique, uplifting view of the next life.

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Samuel French, NY, 1993   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Mother's Day

Synopsis:
When she was thirteen Kate discovered that she was adopted. Now an adult she is still angry about being adopted and has traced her real mother

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1992   -

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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