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Kate Moira Ryan

KATE MOIRA RYAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Kate Moira Ryan started her career in 1985 as a winner of the Young Playwrights Festival. Her play 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, written with and for comedienne Judy Gold, was produced at Ars Nova in New York City, the Montreal Comedy Festival, and the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach to rave reviews. It will re-open Off-Broadway in the fall of 2006.OTMA was produced by the Atlantic Theatre Company, the Ekaterinburg Youth Theatre in Russia, and the Lake George Theatre Project, and will be seen again at the Powerhouse Theatre at Vassar College in the Fall of 2006. It is published by Playscripts, Inc. Her adaptation of Dorothy Allison's novel Cavedweller premiered at New York Theatre Workshop and is published by Dramatists Play Service. She is an alumna of New Dramatists and has received residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Edward Albee Foundations. She was recently awarded a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation by the Ensemble Studio Theatre as well as an Arnold Weinberger Fellowship to the University of Cincinnati, and two fellowships to New Play Festival in Russia from the Center for International Theatre Development. She was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and received the Joe Calloway Award from New Dramatists.

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         100 Strikes         25 Questions For A Jewish Mother         Autobiography of Aiken Fiction, The         Bass for Picasso         Beebo Brinker Chronicles, The         Casting Call         Cavedweller         Fatal Shore, The         G-d Doesn't Pay Rent Here         Judy Show, The         Leaving Queens         Master Class with Cassiopeia O'Hara         OTMA         Tanya Tanya

100 Strikes

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in Baseball Monologues, Heineman Educational (ed Lavonne Mueller), 1997   -

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Genre:
monologue One Act

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25 Questions For A Jewish Mother

Synopsis:
It's the result of a five-year journey across the country taken by the authors, in which they interviewed over 50 Jewish women of different ages, ethnicities, and occupations. the play is the result of that work--a portrait of what makes a Jewish mother a Jewish mother

Notes:
written by Kate Moira Ryan And Judy Gold

1st Produced:
Empty Space Theater, Seattle, WA    2002

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Autobiography of Aiken Fiction, The

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1st Produced:
the Samuel Beckett Theater, NY    1992

Organisations:
Women's Project

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Play/Drama

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Bass for Picasso

Synopsis:
In Bass for Picasso, amputee and food writer for the New York Times Francesca Danieli throws a dinner party for her friends recreating recipes from the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. the guest list includes Pilar, her multilingual art detective lover, who has spent time in Guantanamo for visa problems; Bricka Matson, a lesbian widow with a small child and Republican in-laws who are trying to gain custody; Joe, an OB/GYN whose lover is a geographically challenged crystal meth addict; and Kev, a playwright who has recently fallen off the wagon and written a soon-to-open Off-Broadway play about all of them. It's an insanely funny, irreverent 80-minute look at gay and lesbian life in the new millennium.
- nytheatre.com

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Theatre Breaking Through Barriers

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Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Beebo Brinker Chronicles, The

Synopsis:
stage adaptation of the 1950s and 1960s lesbian pulp novels by Ann Bannon. the following description is from the show's press release: "Set in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village, the Beebo Brinker Chronicles celebrates the era when 'the love that dares not speak its name' began breaking the old rules. Fueled by booze and furtive sex, the play follows the lives and loves of Laura, Beth, and Beebo as they navigate uncharted territories of desire. Beth and Laura, secret lovers in college, went separate ways after graduation: Beth married and had children, Laura moved to New York. Both pine for each other, but before they can reunite, they find themselves entangled in the web of Beebo Brinker, a butch denizen of the bars with a soft spot for young lesbians fresh off the bus
- press release

Notes:
written by Kate Moira Ryan And Linda S. Chapman

1st Produced:
Fourth Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street, NY    01 Oct 2007

Organisations:
Hourglass Group

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY (2009)   978-0-8222-2346-7

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, full length

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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Casting Call

Synopsis:
follows a character named "Ike Schambelan" as he tries to interest producers in casting disabled actors.
- nytheatre.com

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part of Some of Our Parts A program of seven ten-minute plays About disabilitiesand the people Affected by them

1st Produced:
Clurman theatre
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10039    22 Jun 2011

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Genre:
ten min play

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Cavedweller

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Play/Drama

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Fatal Shore, The

Synopsis:
explores the relationship between the United States and Australia

Notes:
part of the Australia Project

1st Produced:
Kraine Theatre, NY, USA    2006

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G-d Doesn't Pay Rent Here

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Written by Kate Moira Ryan And Judy Gold

1st Produced:
Empty Space Theatre, Seattle    2001

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Judy Show, The

Synopsis:
Building on the success of her show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, funny woman Judy Gold returns to the stage in this hilarious look at her life through the lens of the classic sitcoms of her youth. With multimedia, original music, laughter, and love, Judy shows us how she balances family and ambition with a little help from our favorite TV shows of the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Judy Gold And Kate Moira Ryan

1st Produced:
DR2
103 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003    06 Jul 2011

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Genre:
multimedia comedy 80 min

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Leaving Queens

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Book And lyrics by Kate Moira Ryan; Music by Kim D. Sherman

1st Produced:
Women's Project Theater, NY    2001

Organisations:
Women's Project

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Master Class with Cassiopeia O'Hara

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part of 10x25. This is An All-commissioned one-act festival of ten-minute plays by 25 of the playwrights who have been produced At Atlantic theater Company since 1985. 10x25 will unite And reunite Atlantic ensemble members, playwrights, And frequent guest Actors And directors in three separate offerings of ten minute plays, which will run the gamut of theatrical styles And content. 10x25 will feature new works by David Auburn, Leslie Ayvazian, Annie Baker, Stephen Belber, Bekah Brunstetter, Moira Buffini, Jez Butterworth, Ethan Coen, Kia Corthron, Tom Donaghy, John Guare, Kevin Heelan, Tina Howe, Craig Lucas, David Mamet, Peter Parnell, David Pittu, Keith Reddin, Kate Robin, Kate Moira Ryan, Edwin Sanchez, Sam Shepard, Lucy Thurber, Jeff Whitty, And Bill Wrubel.

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Genre:
10 min

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OTMA

Synopsis:
Under house arrest, the four daughters of the last Tsar of Russia rehearse Chekhov's the Cherry Orchard as they await their fate. they fight and make up, lose and gain hope of survival, and ultimately bond together in their final days.

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1st Produced:
New York University (Hot Ink Festival workshop) (New York, NY, United States)    2002

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
65-75 min Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  4 females

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Tanya Tanya

Synopsis:
Russians trying to construct their new world after the fall of Communism

Notes:
Original Playwright - Olga Mukhina

1st Produced:
Towson University    -

Organisations:
Towson University Department of Theatre Arts

1st Published:
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Genre:
Translation

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