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Kate McCamy

KATE MCCAMY

  (1961 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Carolyn Jenks Agency  

Kate McCAmy was raised in lower Manhattan by bohemian artist parents and grew up surrounded by creative minds. She has worked in film and Theatre all her life from off off Broadway to Hollywood films. She is a published and produced playwright, screenwriter and songwriter, has been employed as a script doctor; taught playwriting at Julia Richman High School in Queens for Theatre For New Audiences; ran an improvisation workshop and was a Teacher-Director for the Circle Repertory Company Arts and Education outreach program. She studied film and screenwriting at New York University, but has learned the most from the school of life, traveling the world and working in the "Business". latest screenplay

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

         Big Deal, The         Bridge, The         Deal, The         Dogma Afternoon         Faith         Flow, The         Freedom         Habeas Corpus         Rightsized         Safety Off         Saturday         Sneaker Revolution         What's In A Line

Big Deal, The

Synopsis:
Downtown is roiling with civil unrest or a terrorist attack and due to the media blackout, SILVIE, TODD, and MIKE, don't know which. At Silvie's urging the well meaning young filmmakers take it upon themselves to be the documentarians of the big event that is unfolding underneath their fire escape. Over stale pizza and beer they form their grand cinematic scenario to be but Todd and Mike clearly have different visions of their movie as you can see by the video projections that pop up intermittently throughout the play. they ignore Silvie yet vie for her affections while she tries to convince them that she is worthy of being an equal partner in the project and before you can say "action" they end up in BUCK's office. Buck is a high priced entertainment lawyer who besides seducing Silvie, has ideas of his own on how to make a cutting edge, society-changing documentary. the Big Deal is about how the actions born from the ego and not from the heart have explosive results and beware of whom you make a deal with. Oh, and of course, love.

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Genre:
full length Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bridge, The

Synopsis:
Joan is teetering on the edge of a Bridge after having been a party to a huge corporate meltdown causing thousands of people to be fired. God comes to her in the visage of a junky on the brink of an overdose because that was the nearest body to inhabit. they teach each other how forgive and love.

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1st Produced:
Producer's Club, NYC     2004

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Strawberry Theater Festival

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Genre:
comedy One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Deal, The

Synopsis:
Two well meaning young filmmakers are trying to right the world by making an expose documentary and end up in a lawyer's office suing each other.

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the Drilling Company, NYC

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Smith & Kraus, 2007   -

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Genre:
comedy One Act

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Dogma Afternoon

Dogma Afternoon
He rants to her about his conspiracy theories in an attempt to impress her, she puts up with it until she can't take it any more and strips him down then the phone rings and everything changes.

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1st Produced:
78th Street Theatre Lab
236 West 78th Street, New York, NY 10024     06 May 2010

Organisations:
the Drilling Company

1st Published:
in the Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011, Smith & Kraus; (June 1, 2012)   978-1575257822

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Genre:
Comedic one act

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Faith

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Declaring "We all believe in something. . .don't we?," the Drilling Company has set a short play project on the subject of faith. the nine short plays cover a range of ideas and writing styles. the program includes plays by Brian Dykstra, Kate McCamy, Richard Mover, C. Denby Swanson, Scott Baker, and Stephen Bittrich, all regular contributors to past Drilling Company projects, plus newcomers Jennifer Fawcett, Misha Shulman, and Christine Whitley.
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Short play

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Flow, The

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Nancy is a bout to film her mother's interdisciplinary art work. Flo is standing in the way

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Freedom

Synopsis:
Now in its tenth year, theDrillingCompaNY is well known for its collections of new plays around common themes. the theme this year is FREEDOM. "We chose it because of all of the attention our FREE -market economy has gotten lately and because we're still fighting wars for the same cause," says artistic director Hamilton Clancy. "Franklin Roosevelt outlined four freedoms America was responsible for defending-that was the kick-off point for playwrights." With grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, theDrillingCompaNY commissions writers to write around the chosen theme. the directors of this year's plays are: Hamilton Clancy, Robert A. Wilson, Tom Demenkoff, Jude Domski, David Marantz, Richard Mover, and Rebecca Hengstenberg.
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authors Brian Dykstra, Andrea Moon, C. Denby Swanson, Trish Harnetiaux, Richard Mover, Sean Lewis, Eric Henry Sanders, Kate McCamy

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Genre:
short play

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Habeas Corpus

Synopsis:
Somewhere in the Mideast a college student from the East Village felafel joint lands in a secret prison and is interrogated by a sadistic couple.

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the Drilling Company, NYC

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Genre:
comedy One Act

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Rightsized

Rightsized
The queen of the office cleaners sorts out portfolio manager Michael who has been downsized

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Genre:
Ten Min

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Safety Off

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Commissioned for the Safety Series of short plays. Mattie is mugged after her Pilates class and her husband, Miles, an English professor at Columbia University takes it upon himself to buy a gun.

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the Drilling Company, NYC

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Genre:
comedy One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Saturday

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Saturday may be in Purgatory. She stumbles across Brittany a child in a woman's body

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Sneaker Revolution

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the President makes a decree that due to the lack of jobs in the United States all people 21 or younger are no longer allowed to work for a wage. the young people rise up and march across the country. Documenting this in his pirate radio show, Samo brings the news of his travels and the people he meets on his journey from New York City to LA.

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Tribeca Theatre Lab, Downstairs @ The Westbank Cafe     1994

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Tribeca Theatre Lab, NYC

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Genre:
One Woman Play

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What's In A Line

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A man and a woman meet in an art gallery and hear each other's inner thoughts.

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Genre:
Comedic short

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