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KATHLEEN WARNOCK
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Kathleen Warnock is a New York City-based playwright. She grew up in Philadelphia, and also lived and worked in the Deep South. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where she majored in Ancient Studies. She was Assistant to the Artistic Director, Sabra Jones, at Mirror Repertory Company, the off-Broadway alternating repertory company, Geraldine Page, Artist in Residence. She has studied playwriting with Henry Miller, Susan Miller, Nicole Burdette and Tina Howe. She is one of the founding members of En Avant Playwrights, a collaborative group of theater artists who have produced work ranging from evenings of original one-acts, to full-length entries in FringeNYC and FrigidNY. She also maintains the En Avant Playwrights bulletin board, which collects and posts opportunities for playwrights to submit their work (since 2003). To the Top, a full-length play, won the South Carolina Playwrights Festival, and was produced by Trustus Theater (SC). Her full-length play, Grieving for Genevievewas produced in the Midtown International Theater Festival (NY). It won the John Golden Award for Playwriting. Rock the Line was produced by Emerging Artists Theater (NY) and won the Robert Chesley Award for Emerging Playwright. Some Are People was also produced by EAT in NYC and at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Some Are People won the Arts & Letters Prize. Outlookwas also produced by EAT in Dublin. That's Her Way premiered at FrigidNY in Feb. 2013, and was seen in Dublin in May, where it was nominated for the Oscar Wilde Award, and later for the New York Innovative Theater Award. Her full-length, one-act and short plays have been seen regionally and internationally. She is Playwrights Company Manager for EAT and curates the Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwrights Project for TOSOS. She is Ambassador of Love for North America for the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Kathleen's fiction, non-fiction and interviews have appeared in many print and online publications. She was series editor for Best Lesbian Erotica 2010-2014. She wrote the liner notes for the Joan Jett CD "Unfinished Business." Kathleen hosts Drunken! Careening! Writers! a monthly reading series at KGB Bar, since 2004. She tweets @kwarnockny. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
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Adventures of , The
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part of Emerging Artists theatre presents EATfest, the fall edition of the company's short play series
1st Produced:
Producers Club, NY
2007
Organisations:
Emerging Artists Theatre
1st Published:
in 2008: the Best Ten-Minute Plays 3 or More Actors, Smith & Kraus, (2009)
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All Good Cretins Go to Heaven
CBGB's is closed. the end of the 70s came and went. But Joey Ramone is still an angel, and his ghost breathes new life into a lost fan.
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Around the Horn
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the African-American groundskeeper of a minor league baseball team finds she has something in common with the Iranian refugee in a small Georgia town. She offers him a chance for redemption.
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Produced in New Play Festival, Gardner-Webb University (N.C.) April 2004. Will be published As part of festival Anthology Fall 2004
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Gardner-Webb University
2004
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Gardner-Webb University
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Bushel of Crabs
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A man and a woman, former lovers, meet for the first time in 10 years in a crabhouse in Baltimore. She wants something from him, but not what he thinks she wants.
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First produced by En Avant Playwrights As part of their evening of new work "Strange Change" in Feb. 2004. Forthcoming in American Globe/Turnip theater Festival NYC April 2004; Mae West Fest, Seattle, July 2004
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2004
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play Ten Min. - - Lesbian, one act
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Further Adventures Of. . .
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The radio adventures of Maggie Day as she uncovers the secrets of Commander Zoron and Prince Kal. And the actors who played them Drake Darling and Frank Gallagher
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TOSOS Playwrights Festival
2014
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Gay full length comedy
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Grieving for Genevieve
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Grieving for Genevieve, the story of a tough-as-nails Baltimore matriarch with three tough-as-nails daughters, including an oft-married musician, a hard-drinking, cursing nun, and an icy businesswoman who avoids her family whenever possible
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1st Produced:
Jewel Box Space, NY
2005
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En Avant Playwrights and the Sixth Annual Midtown International Theater Festival
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How To Get Married In Five Steps And Seventeen Years
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Two women are finally able to marry seventeen years after they first met
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I'm Gonna Run Away
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Two fans, an older obsessive collector, and a young starstruck young woman musician, wait in the parking lot of a rock club to meet their idol. the security guy's job is to make sure they don't get to do it
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Winner of Audience Favorite And Best Actor Awards At Turnip theater 15-Minute Play Festival
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Turnip
2000
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Turnip Theater
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Julie Andrews Is The Devil
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Lesbian folk singer Marissa meets ex-nun Tabitha on Commercial Street in Provincetown during Women's Week
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Night Rides
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written by Tina Howe, David Marrero, Dan Shore, Ed Valentine, Kathleen Warnock
1st Produced:
Frederick Loewe Theater, NY
2004
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En Avant Playwrights
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Tina Howe, David Marrero, Dan Shore, Ed Valentine, Kathleen Warnock
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Rock the Line
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Seven hardcore rock fans gather in a parking club to await a show starring their favorite performer
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1st Produced:
Theater Five, NY
2006
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Emerging Artists Theatre
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Rocks in the Bed
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Two young men visit a Greenwich Village landmark, and the woman who owns it to find out something important about the old poet who died there.
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10-minute play; finalist Actors theater of Louisville National 10-Minute Play Contest. Produced As part of "Now You See 'Em" A night of new work by En Avant Playwrights, Loewe theater, New York City, spring 2003.
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Loewe Theater, New York City
2003
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En Avant Playwrights
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Secret Angel
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1st Produced:
Tada Theatre, New York
11 Nov 2009
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EATFest
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Sharing the Pie
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A bittersweet, contemporary tale of family, friends and unrequited love.
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part of 2008 Fall EATfest
1st Produced:
Roy Arias Studios & Theatres, NY
2008
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Emerging Artists Theatre Company
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Some are People
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A different kind of summer in Provincetown, for tworegulars and the interesting woman who can even shake up a drag queen.
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part of Emerging Artists theatre's 8th Annual Spring EATFest, A festival of new one-act plays.
1st Produced:
Theater Five, NY
2007
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Emerging Artists Theatre
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Space Between Heartbeats, The
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Allison, A college professor, hires Mandy to help her clear out her Apartment And move. Allison, who had Always been with men, falls in love with Mandy. Mandy, whose lover was disabled in An Accident, finds herself falling for Allison.
1st Produced:
In Sam French/Love Creek Off-Off Broadway Play Festival
2000
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HomoGenius
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Staying Put
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later enlarged as "That's her way"
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Eatfest At Emerging Artists Theater
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Ted's Head
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in the Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011, Smith & Kraus; (June 1, 2012)
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That's Her Way
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From high school to middle age, Ferro and Stuckey have never been able to get it right. . .or get over each other.
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1st Produced:
Frigidny
01 Feb 2013
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En Avant Playwrights
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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays
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To the Top
Synopsis:
In the competitive world of Division I women's basketball, the Lady Bulldogs fight other teams (and each other) to be the best in the country, under the sometimes-questionable leadership of head coach Norrie Norris. Norris and her staff (assistant coach Spider Webb and trainer Alice Farrell) try to bring the best out of their freshman stars, Mary Ellen Donohue and Faith Peavy, and senior guard Julie Stankavage while avoiding the scrutiny of reporter Casey Carter, and Mary Ellen's mother Meredith.
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Winner, South Carolina Playwrights Festival
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Trustus Theater (South Carolina
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Samuel French, London, 1991
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Wash It Out
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What To Throw Out
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Provincetown Playwrights Festival
2013
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