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Kitty Felde

KITTY FELDE

  
Nationality:    USA
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By day, she's a public radio reporter covering Capitol Hill. But in real life, Kitty Felde is an award-winning playwright. Felde's plays include a courtroom Drama about the Bosnian war (a PaTCH OF eaRTH, winner Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition), an adaptation of a trio of short stories by Nikolai Gogol (GOGOL PROJeCT, winner 2009 La Drama Critics Circle award), even a musical comedy about the Dodgers' move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles (BUM's RUSH). Her work has been produced in New York, Hollywood, Pretoria, Sussex, Detroit, San Diego, and Buffalo. Her one woman show with a ghost aLICe, an evening with the tart-tongued daughter of theodore Roosevelt, was the Washington Post's "Critic's Pick!" at the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival. the play has won the Open Book/Fireside Theatre Playwriting Competition, placed second in the Little Theatre of alexandria annual Playwriting Competition, and was a finalist in the Southwest Theatre association New Play Contest. Felde co-founded Theatre of NOTe in Hollywood and ran the playwriting program at HOLa Youth Theatre in Los Angeles. If you look quickly, you can spot her playing Mrs. Riley in Woody allen's "Radio Days."

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Alice: An Evening With the Tart-Tongued Daughter Of theodore Roosevelt         Bum's Rush         Flier, The         Gogol Project         Journalist Of the Year         Kigali         Luckiest Girl, The         Man With No Shadow, The         Mum's the Word         Patch Of Earth, A         Shanghai Heart         Time of the Troubles         Top Of the Hour

Alice: An Evening With the Tart-Tongued Daughter Of theodore Roosevelt

Synopsis:
It's June of 1971, Tricia Nixon is getting married, and every reporter in town is determined to interview the oldest living White House bride, 80-something Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Long before there was a Lady Gaga or a Jenna Bush, there was alice. She was the daughter of one of America's favorite Presidents, theodore Roosevelt and wife to a Speaker of the House. Alice made headlines in an era when tabloid journalism was exploding. She was tall, gorgeous, and loved to shock the American public with her antics. She endures - perhaps because every other sentence she uttered was a sound bite with teeth that still nip. Alice offers opinions on Richard Nixon and several other presidents. But she is also trying to justify her own gadfly existence to herself - and to her father. the ghost of TR appears in the play to question alice's version of events and force her to confront the truths in her own life: her unhappy relationship with her daughter, the infidelity of her husband, her own marital indiscretion, and her selfishness in general. Welcome to an evening with the ultimate political celebrity: Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

Notes:
Winner, Open Book/Fireside theatre Playwriting Competition, 1996; 2nd Place Winner, the Little theatre of Alexandria Annual Playwriting Competition, 1996; Finalist, Southwest theatre Association New Play Contest, 1996

1st Produced:
Philharmonic Center For The Arts, Naples, Florida     2010

Organisations:
2011 Capital Fringe Festival

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Genre:
one woman show with a ghost

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bum's Rush

Synopsis:
the story of the Dodgers move to Los Angeles

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1st Produced:
Theatre 29, Los Angeles     2003

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Flier, The

Synopsis:
Desegregation in the South

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1st Produced:
6X6 Festival Of Short Plays     11 Apr 2013

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Short play

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Gogol Project

Synopsis:
This is an adaptation of three short stories by Nikolai Gogol - "the Nose," "the Overcoat," and "Diary of a Madman." It runs approximately two hours. Kovalev wakes up one morning to find his nose has gone missing. It shows up in town, dressed to the nines, commanding more respect than the man himself has ever gotten. Kovalev's barber had long fantasized about getting even with Kovalev, who flirts outrageously with his wife. Ivan now fears he'll be killed for his fantasy come true. Meanwhile, Kovalev's clerk aksenty has fallen in love with daughter Sophie. Unfortunately, she's smitten with Treplov. aksenty isn't quite of this world. He believes the town's dogs are writing letters to each other. akaky akakievich is one of the town's postal clerks. He spends his last rouble on a new coat. Unfortunately, it is stolen and akaky's life spirals downward. . .until his ghost gets its revenge. the play ends with a gigantic musical theatre finale with cows, dancing chairs, and aksenty heading to Spain to assume the throne as its new queen.

Notes:
Winner of the 2009 La Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Adaptation. Note: Three of the main characters Are mute And should be played by Actors with good physical theatre skills. This play Also includes characters played by puppets, so strong puppeteer skills Are desired. the cast number is flexible.

1st Produced:
Bootleg Theatre, Los Angeles     2009

Organisations:
Rogue artists ensemble, Los Angeles - commission

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Genre:
Comedy/adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7-9            Female:  4-6            Other:  -

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Journalist Of the Year

Synopsis:
Three women journalists meet in the ladies room. they are all up for Female Journalist of the Year. the Latina news anchor, the radio drudge and veteran

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Kigali

Synopsis:
Petty ambitions bring a group of Americans to post-genocide Rwanda. Mike Marcott is climbing the political ladder and plans to announce his run for the US Senate with news footage provided by pretty TV reporter Carol Thornton. He's determined to finally get her into bed. She's determined to use the Rwanda junket to catapult her to the networks. But the trip is haunted by real and imagined ghosts from both Rwanda and the La riots and the universal question of how neighbor can turn against neighbor almost overnight.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Luckiest Girl, The

Synopsis:
Kitty Felde's controversial play about Zwarte Piet, the politically incorrect Dutch holiday character in blackface. Tahira is moving to Holland with her Gran, an attorney for the United Nations International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. the move is difficult - Tahira is shorter than the other kids, she doesn't speak Dutch, and then she discovers there's no American-style Christmas in Holland. Instead of jolly old St. Nick, kids wait for Sinterklaas - a bishop who arrives from Spain on a boat. the Sint's companion is the politically incorrect jester in blackface Zwarte Piet. Tahira - like all the Dutch kids - falls in love with Piet. Her grandmother is horrified. Tahira and her grandmother battle over stereotypes and tolerance, and ultimately, over Gran's decision to separate Tahira from her drug addicted mother.

Notes:
a one-hour comedy with no set And lots of props.

1st Produced:
Atwater Village Theatre. Los Angeles, CA     01 Dec 2015

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Genre:
theatre for Young audiences

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Man With No Shadow, The

Synopsis:
1950s. the radio show "Marshall Hollister Lawman of Los Angeles" is moving to television but without its star as his face does not match his voice

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  1 either sex

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Mum's the Word

Synopsis:
Jinx Riley and her boss are trying to make their local chrysanthemum festival the rival of the Rose Parade but boss J Patrick Donavan is being distracted by beauty queen Lyla

Notes:
included in "Winter Rites", the North By South Short Play Festival

1st Produced:
Parish Church Of St. Mark, Glendale, Ca     01 Dec 2012

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Patch Of Earth, A

Synopsis:
War crimes in the former Yugoslavia

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Shanghai Heart

Synopsis:
anything can happen in 1870's San Francisco. Cristabelle Calloway gives up her career as a hoofer with Buffalo Bob's Wild West Show. She comes to the city by the Bay seeking her long lost - and rich - grandfather. a bump on the head leads to amnesia, a stolen identity, and romance with a singing Mountie.Ramona Rodriguez is also on a quest, seeking her stolen rancho. and Clementine Walker just wants a newspaper job at the Golden Bay Bugle. a notorious Barbary Coast shanghai ring and an onstage earthquake complicate matters.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  (or 5m 5f)

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Time of the Troubles

Synopsis:
Why does brother turn against brother, almost overnight? That's the question that haunts the characters of Time of the Troubles. the play is set at Christmastime, in a poor parish on the outskirts of Dandora, on the eve of the bloody 2007 elections. But it's as much a story about the LA riots and how the violence haunts a pair of cops who were stranded in South Central as the violence erupted. Drama. Recommended for ages 13 and up.

Notes:
the Kennedy Center hosts its 12th annual Page-to-Stage festival, featuring more than 40 D.C.-area theater companies. This three-day event offers free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional, and national playwrights, librettists, and composers.

1st Produced:
Kennedy Center,Rehearsal Room #1, Dc     31 Aug 2013

Organisations:
ABG Playwrights

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Top Of the Hour

Synopsis:
a man waits for news of his wife who was involved in a terrible train crash. a news reporter must decide whether to go for a story

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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