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Mary Kathryn Nagle

MARY KATHRYN NAGLE

  
Nationality:    Native American (Cherokee)
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  represented by Michael Finkle

Mary Kathryn Nagle was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She graduated summa cum laude from Tulane Law School where she was the recipient of the Judge John Minor Wisdom Award. Her play Manahatta was recently featured in the Public Theater's inaugural PUBLIC STUDIO workshop production series. Other recent productions include AMERINDA's presentation of Miss Lead at 59e59 from January 13-26, 2014. Nagle is an alum of the 2013 Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, and an alum of the Civilians 2014 Research & Development Group, where she developed her latest play, Fairly Traceable.

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below is a list of Mary Kathryn Nagle's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Fairly Traceable         Manahatta         Silver Of A Full Moon         Sovereignty         To The Seventh Degree
Fairly Traceable

Synopsis:
Set during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Fairly Traceable follows the journeys of a young Ponca man and a Chitimacha woman as they juggle personal and career ambitions with advocacy for the environment and the people they love. In this romantic dramedy, award-winning Cherokee playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle reveals the culpability of corporate polluters and climate change deniers in environmental disasters.

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romantic dramedy

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Manahatta

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A gripping journey from the fur trade of the 1600s to the stock trade of today, Mary Kathryn Nagle's MANAHATTA tells the story of Jane Snake, a brilliant young Native American woman with a Stanford MBA. Jane reconnects with her ancestral homeland, known as Manahatta, when she moves from her home with the Delaware Nation in Anadarko, Oklahoma to New York for a job at a major investment bank just before the financial crisis of 2008. Jane's struggle to reconcile her new life with the expectations and traditions of the family she left behind is powerfully interwoven with the heartbreaking history of how the Lenape were forced from their land. Both old and new Manahatta converge in a brutal lesson about the dangers of living in a society where there's no such thing as enough.

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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

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Emerging Writers Group At Public Theater, New York     01 Mar 2013

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adventure, dark comedy, drama, political

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Silver Of A Full Moon

Synopsis:
Sliver of a Full Moon is a portrayal of resistance and celebration. It is the story of a movement that restored the authority of Indian tribes over non-Indian abusers to protect women on tribal lands. Although thousands contributed to this victory, Sliver of a Full Moon follows the story of five Native women who took a stand and two Native men, including Congressman Tom Cole, who stood with them to win this victory. But this victory doesn't include our sisters in Alaska. As re-authorized by President Obama on March 7, 2013, Section 904 of the Act limits the restoration of jurisdiction to Indian country, thereby explicitly excluding 228 federally recognized tribes in Alaska. Consequently, Sliver of a Full Moon asks the question: what will it take to restore the jurisdiction of all tribes to protect the lives of all native women? Together, we will create the answer.

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United States Capitol, Visitor Center Congressional Auditorium and Atrium     11 Mar 2014

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Sovereignty

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Arena Stage, Mead Center for American Theatre     2018

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To The Seventh Degree

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Great Plains Theatre Conference, Omaha, Nebraska    

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