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Kate Fodor

KATE FODOR

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Bret Adams Ltd  represented by Bruce Ostler

Kate Fodors newest play, RX, will be produced Off-Broadway as part of Primary Stages upcoming season, running from Jan. 24 to March 4, 2012. Her plays have also been produced by Playwrights Horizons, epic Theatre ensemble, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Londons Courtyard Theatre, and Chicagos TimeLine Theatre Company, among others. She has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2008. Kates play Hannah and Martin received the Kennedy Centers Roger L. Stevens award, a Joseph Jefferson Citation, an after Dark award, and a finalist position for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. 100 Saints You Should Know received the National Theatre Conferences Stavis award and was nominated for a GLaaD Media award, as well as being named one of the 10 Best Plays of 2007 by entertainment Weekly and Time Out New York. Her plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and have been anthologized and excerpted in a number of volumes from Smith & Kraus. Kates work has been developed at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Hartford Stage and Centre Theater Group. She has been named one of eight to Watch by the New York Times and is currently at work on commissions from Chautauqua Theater Company and the Playwrights Center, where she is the recipient of the 2011-2012 McKnight National Residency.

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

         100 Saints You Should Know         Fifty Ways         Hannah And Martin         Rx

100 Saints You Should Know

Synopsis:
theresa cleans the rectory of the local parish to support her unruly teenage daughter. When its priest leaves the church under uncertain circumstances and returns home to his protective mother, theresa finds herself compelled to pursue him. One eventful night joins them all, forcing a reckoning with the broken memories and shaken faith that divides them-and the discovery of a shared, tenuous common ground
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Dramatists Play Service, NY (2009)   -

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Fifty Ways

Synopsis:
there are so many ways to leave your lover

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1st Produced:
Chautauqua Theatre, New York    2012

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Drama

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Hannah And Martin

Synopsis:
based on the relationship between the Jewish political theorist Hannah arendt and the renowned philosopher Martin Heidegger. In Germany in the 1920s, Heidegger and arendt have a tumultuous love affair while he is a professor and she is his admiring student. But as the National Socialists come to power, Heidegger uses his fame and brilliance to help further the goals of the party. after the devastation of World War II, arendt, who has fled to America and become a respected public figure in her own right, returns to Germany and visits Heidegger at the home he shares with his wife. there she struggles to come to terms with his involvement with the Nazis and to understand what he still means to her.

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reading at Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, NY    17 Nov 2010

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2004   -

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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Rx

Synopsis:
Meena enrols on to a drug clinical trial. the drug she is testing will cure depression caused by work. She falls in love with her doctor who is looking for a drug to cure a broken heart. a smart comedy about big love, big dreams and Big Pharma.

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1st Produced:
Primary Stages, NY, USA    24 Jan 2012

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    978-0-8222-2624-6

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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