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Kathryn Walat

KATHRYN WALAT

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  represented by Seth Glewen

Kathryn Walat is a playwright with an interest in the details and rhythms of contemporary life, as she explores beyond the norms of dramatic structure and language. Her play CREATION premiered at The Theatre @ Boston Court (Pasadena), and nominated for a 2013 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Playwriting. Her VICTORIA MARTIN: MATH TEAM QUEEN premiered at the Womens Project, and was published in New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2007 (Smith & Kraus) and in Dramatics magazine. Her politically resonant BLEEDING KANSAS premiered at the Hangar Theatre (Ithaca), and received a Francesca Primus citation from the American Theatre Critics Association. Other works include ANCIENT GODS OF THE BACKWOODS (New Georges Germ Project); KNOW DOG (Salvage Vanguard, Austin); and the one-act JOHNNY HONG KONG (Perishable Theatre, Providence). Walat has received commissions from MCC, Yale Rep, and Actors Theatre of Louisville (On the Road Anthology). She is an Affiliated Playwright with New Georges, and a Core Member of the Playwrights Center, where her ROMEO & NAOMI RAMIREZ was featured in their Ruth Easton New Play Series in March 2015. She is also the co-librettist, with composer Gregory Spears, of the chamber opera PAULS CASE (adapted from the Willa Cather story), which made its NYC premiere at PROTOTYPE, and was named in New Yorker magazines Ten Notable Performances and Recordings of 2014. SEE BAT FLY, developed at the Orchard Project and Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep, was recognized on The Kilroys List for 2014. BA Brown University, MFA Yale School of Drama. Kate teaches playwriting at Savannah College of Art and Design, and splits her time between New York and Savannah.

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         Androcles and the Lion         Bleeding Kansas         Connecticut         Drama Geeks vs Zombie Cheerleaders         Germ Project, The         Greenspace         Johnny Hong Kong         Know Dog         Miss Electricity         Open Road Anthology, The         Out of Nothing         Romeo & Naomi Ramirez         Rotten State         See Bat Fly         Smile         Spy Speak Spy         Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen

Androcles and the Lion

Synopsis:
A singing mouse, an escaped slave, and a hungry lion form an unlikely trio of friends whose bond is put to the test by an evil Emperor in this enchanting and heartwarming play. While walking through the jungle, Mouse's passionate singing awakens the Lion, who, despite his immense appetite, lets the tiny Mouse go. Androcles, an escaped slave from the city, makes his way into the jungle where he finds the Lion with a thorn in his paw. Risking capture, Androcles decides to help the Lion and the two become fast friends. But when the evil and lonely Emperor imprisons the two companions and forces them to face off in the arena, it's the tiny Mouse who reminds them all that friendships aren't easily broken.

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The Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, NY    2004

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
40-50 min Comedy for young audiences

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Bleeding Kansas

Bleeding Kansas
A political play set in pre-Civil War Kansas, with contemporary resonance.

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Also produced by Moxie theater, San Diego, CA, 2008

1st Produced:
The Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, NY    Aug 2007

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Genre:
Historical Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Connecticut

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Drama Geeks vs Zombie Cheerleaders

Synopsis:
The Drama Club notices that their big rivals the Cheerleaders are beginning to smell have a taste for human flesh

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  5            Female:  11            Other:  -

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Germ Project, The

Synopsis:
This show features the work of playwrights Kara Lee Corthron (directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni), Lynn Rosen (directed by Shoshana Gold), Kathryn Walat (directed by Portia Krieger), and Anna Ziegler (directed by Beatrice Terry). the four "germs" of full-length plays of scope and adventure commissioned by New Georges for this project will be presented together, fully produced, in a cohesive and satisfying ninety-minute intermission-less evening. there will be a connective thread to the pieces that will take place with visuals and storytelling. the Germ Project is a response to the trend in the American theater toward smaller new plays. "I noticed we were reading fewer of the big (in terms of imaginative scope), irreverent, highly theatrical plays we like to produce," says Susan Bernfield, artistic director of New Georges. "And realized it's because there's so much pressure on playwrights these days to write plays that have small casts and simple production elements, plays that are considered produce-able." In response, the company commissioned four long-time affiliated playwrights to write new plays of scope and adventure, their dream plays, what might be considered "unproduce-able" plays. Early in the process, New Georges commissioned four directors to collaborate with the playwrights, to help push their big ideas even bigger, and has spent the 2010-11 season developing the plays in workshop toward this production. "We asked the artists to challenge us as producers," says Bernfield, "and to select for this production the "germ" of their project that includes its most theatrically exciting moments. By producing the most difficult parts, maybe we can prove that these plays aren't "unproduce-able" at all."
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1st Produced:
3LD Art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10006    20 Jun 2011

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New Georges

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Greenspace

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Johnny Hong Kong

Synopsis:
A one-act play about a very active five-year-old, and his mom.

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1st Produced:
Perishable Theater, Providence, Ri    2003

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11th International Women's Playwriting Festival Anthology, 2003   -

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One Act

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Know Dog

Synopsis:
A curious little love story, between woman, man, and the dog Stanley.

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Workshop production At the Hangar theatre, 2002

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Salvage Vanguard Press, 2004   -

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Miss Electricity

Synopsis:
With the help of her best friend Freddy, Violet sets out to break a world record (any record) so she can prove how extraordinary she is. Just when things seem hopeless, something electric happens.

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A play for young Audiences.

1st Produced:
La Jolla Playhouse    2009

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Playscripts, Inc   -

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Youth Audience

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Open Road Anthology, The

Synopsis:
the call of the open road has reverberated since the founding of our nation: the wind in our hair and promise of a new life around the corner; or in the legacy of land taken, communities divided and the increasingly guarded borders behind which Americans drive. Comic and thought-provoking, these writers examine how America's yearning for unfettered freedom resonates today and where it rings hollow.

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written by Constance Congdon, Kia Corthron, Michael John Garces, Rolin Jones, A. Rey Pamatmat And Kathryn Walat, with music by GrooveLily

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2006-2007 Actors Theatre Apprentice Company

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Play/Drama

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Out of Nothing

Synopsis:
explores the relationship between the United States and Australia

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part of the Australia Project

1st Produced:
Kraine Theatre, NY, Usa    2006

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Play/Drama

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Romeo & Naomi Ramirez

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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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Rotten State

Synopsis:
Set in the White House, "Hamlet" re-imagined, with the President's daughter.

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Workshop production At Yale School of Drama. Developed At Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2001.

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See Bat Fly

Synopsis:
Bat biologist Melanie goes to Albuquerque for an experimental cure for her nightmares. She finds her nerd of a brother and has a most unusual Christmas

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1st Produced:
Leeds Theatre, Providence, Ri    09 Jul 2014

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Drama

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Smile

Synopsis:
A comedy about not being happy.

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Comedy

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Spy Speak Spy

Synopsis:
Semiotics meets James Bond-antics, as a family heals itself during a college graduation.

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Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen

Synopsis:
Vickie Martin is uber-popular. She's also wicked smart. Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen demonstrates that chaos theory rules when the third most popular sophomore is roped into joining the all-male, all-nerd Longwood High School math team, upsetting the axis of symmetry of boys becoming men. Will Vickie Martin invert the curve or become the coefficient for her team winning the state math championship? Can this goddess of pi possibly become the common denominator that makes the mathletes victorious? Totally.
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Also produced by Moxie theater, San Diego, 2007.

1st Produced:
Julia Miles (Wpp) Theatre, NY    2007

Organisations:
Women's Project

1st Published:
Samuel French, Inc - New York >>>, 2007
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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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