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Katharine Houghton

KATHARINE HOUGHTON

  (1945 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  

Katharine Houghton Grant was born on March 10, 1945, in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Marion Hepburn Grant (Katharine Hepburn's younger sister) and Ellsworth Grant. She is their middle child and only daughter, and had two brothers, John "Jack" Grant and Toby Grant. Growing up, she spent a lot of time visiting her aunt in New York and California. Before going into the movies, she went to Sarah Lawrence College and majored in philosophy. The acting bug bit her in her junior year, after she did a summer of summer stock theatre. Her debut in the movies was in 1967's "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" as Joanna Drayton. This movie also starred her aunt, Katharine Hepburn, with whom which she has had a close relationship, Spencer Tracy and Sidney Poitier. Since this time, she has starred in over fifty on and off Broadway and New England regional theater productions. She is also a playwright and amongst her credits are such productions as: "Best Kept Secret", "Merlin", "The Marry Month Of May", "Mortal Friends", "On The Shady Side", "The Right Number", "Phone Play" and her translation of Anouilh's "antigone". She also presents lectures: "Katharine X Three", "My Grandmother's House Near The River" and "The Secret Life Of Louisa May Alcott".

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

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         Best Kept Secret, A Dangerous Liaison In the Cold War         Bookends         Buddha         Merlin         Merry Month Of May         Mortal Friends         On the Shady Side         Only Angels         Phone Play         Right Number, The

Best Kept Secret, A Dangerous Liaison In the Cold War

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Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge, Ma    2000

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Bookends

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Bookends is based on the true story of Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, whose unusual passion for rare books forced them to abandon convention and follow their dreams
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book, music And lyrics by Katharine Houghton, Dianne Adams And James McDowell

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Buddha

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Merlin

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Merry Month Of May

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Mortal Friends

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On the Shady Side

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Only Angels

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Written 1997, performed at the Irish Rep Theatre. Schuyler Grant (Katharine's niece) was in the original production. Was redeveloped in 2005, received a private reading at the Epic Mondays play-reading series at the Players Club in New York in September 2005. As of April 2013, she was working on it again.

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Irish Repertory Company    1997

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Phone Play

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Right Number, The

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