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Kate E Ryan

KATE E RYAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    United Talent Agency  represented by Mark Subias

Full-length plays include DESIGN YOUR KITCHEN, DOT, HIM, MARK SMITH, the POOL SKIMMER, SPRINKLER and an adaptation of Sophocles' WOMEN OF TRACHIS. In the U.S., her work has been developed or produced by 13P, Annex Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, the Drama League, the Flea Theater, the Ontological, Soho Rep, Target Margin, the Vineyard Theatre and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Kate is the Co-Chair of Soho Rep's Writer-Director Lab and is former Co-Curator of the OBIE-winning performance series Little Theatre at Tonic.

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

         Design Your Kitchen         Dot         Hotel, The         Kitchen Staff, The         Mark Smith         Pool Skimmer, The         Science Is Close         Sprinkler         Women Of Trachis

Design Your Kitchen

Synopsis:
weaves together the narratives of an adolescent aspiring Henny Youngman, a romantically doomed Italian-American couple, and the slacker employees of a dubious government agency, culminating in a search for fulfillment at a kitchen remodeling expo.

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Dot

Synopsis:
Set in a Florida housing development, DOT chronicles the friendship shared between Kelly, an 11 year-old outcast coping with life in a dysfunctional family, and Dot, an elderly widow living nearby.

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This is part of Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks 2010 festival of new work

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Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Hotel, The

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Summerworks Short Play Event     2005

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Kitchen Staff, The

Synopsis:
A broken play chronicling a few New York lives in the days after September 11, 2001.

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the Brooklyn Review, 2002   -

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Short Play Ten Min

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Mark Smith

Synopsis:
A filmmaker (unseen during the play) attempts to go behind the music and reveal the background of Mark Smith, a once-famous heavy metal singer. She elicits responses from the people who 'knew him when.' As she gathers more and more information, the filmmaker becomes most interested in the sadness of the people who raised Mark, and the strange experimental music scene taking place in Mark's former music teacher's basement. MARK SMITH explores the kinds of stories that mass media must pass by, and celebrates the possibilities of experimental, DIY art.

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Walkerspace, NY     2006

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13P

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Genre:
Fictional docu-play Documentary

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Pool Skimmer, The

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New Play Boot Camp     2004

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Science Is Close

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Sprinkler

Synopsis:
Helene is a widow. Jack is her married neighbor. No, they don't start an affair; they simply talk about life while watering their lawns. This offers each of them some relief.

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Workshop Production: Annex Theatre, Seattle, Wa     2004

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Annex Theatre

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Genre:
Play One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Women Of Trachis

Synopsis:
combines the plot and structure of Sophocles' least-produced Drama with contemporary cultural references. This new adaptation brings modernity, vulgarity, and humor to a tragic story about the unavoidable nature of fate.

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1st Produced:
Ohio Theater, New York, NY     2007

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Target Margin Theater

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Genre:
Tragedy Adaptation

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Male:  2            Female:  6            Other:  -

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