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Kato McNickle

KATO MCNICKLE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Kato McNickle is a Connecticut-based artist, playwright, and dog wrangler. Awards and fellowships include the Ensemble Studio Theater New Voices Fellowship for Fencers; the Pen Is a Mighty Sword Award from the Virtual Theatre Project for A Yankee Trader; An Inaugural Dramatist Award from Gorilla Theatre for To Die for Want of Lobster; the African-American Playwriting Award from UCSD and the Pen Is a Mighty Sword 1st-runner-up for In Search of a Better Life with Elvis; the Robert Lehan One-Act Play Award for Leak.

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

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

         girls in boys pants         Joan's Voices         Swimming the Ocean         To Die for Want of Lobster         Yankee Trader, A

girls in boys pants

Synopsis:
An alternative love story. the tension between the world of words and the world of art.

Notes:
Single set, no intermission, 70 minutes.

1st Produced:
Vassar Experimental Theatre, Poughkeepsie, NY     2005

Organisations:
Vassar Experimental Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy/Drama Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Joan's Voices

Synopsis:
Joan's Voices presents an intimate struggle of faith verses convention, which has its ultimate realization as a single choice between life or death. It is the last three days in the life of Joan of Arc as she awaits execution. Through conversations with her voices Joan comes to accept her fate at the hands of her enemies in this tragic coming of age story.

Notes:
Single set, no intermission, 100 minutes.

1st Produced:
Spirit Of Broadway Theater, Norwich, Ct     2001

Organisations:
Spirit of Broadway Theater

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Swimming the Ocean

Synopsis:
Looking Glass Spring 2006 Writer/Directors Forum

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Looking Glass Theatre, NY     2006

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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To Die for Want of Lobster

Synopsis:
To Die for Want of Lobster begins with perpetual slacker Jack believing his luck has changed after meeting the beautiful, sexy Lena over a blackjack table. Barabara, awakened by the racket the two are creating, is livid to find that Jack has brought this strange woman into her house. To Die for Want of Lobster brings these three people together; Barbara, the bookish schoolteacher; Jack, her brother waiting for a divorce and between careers; and Lena, the beautiful stranger who comes into their lives demanding not to be bored.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Just Off-Broadway Theatre, Kansas City, Mo     2002

Organisations:
Gorilla Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy with tragic consequences Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Yankee Trader, A

Synopsis:
A Yankee Trader finds Dillon Taber down on his luck and the law on his doorstep. In a moment of desperation he trades his wife for a car in order to preserve his freedom. This bargain brings disaster to his marriage, his children and his diginity after he loses the car to the waters of Long Island sound in the Hurricane of 1938. A Yankee Trader barnstorms roles of race, ethics and gender in a turbulent time of great change in America. A time when the world itself was poised on the brink of war, plague, and social uprising that would throw it into the modern era.

Notes:
Several sparse interior locations; three men, three women, one boy & one girl. Running-time 2 hours 10 minutes.

1st Produced:
El Portal Theatre, North Hollywood, Ca     2006

Organisations:
the Virtual Theatre Project

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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