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KATHARINE CLARK GRAY (1977 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Katharine Clark Gray is a 2008 recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Arts. In June of that year her play USER 927 [Brat Productions] debuted in Philadelphia to national attention for being the first dramatic work based on a web search log. Other credits include: 516 (five sixteen) [NY Int'l Fringe, w/ Kristina Valada-Viars], writer/performer for collaborative work Three Chord Fiction [2007 Barrymore Award winner, also with Brat]; You see me comin' you better run [a Village Voice Choice], The B Side [Governor's Laundress], Riot Standard [NextFest, Edmonton AB], True Dreams of Wichita [People's Improv Theatre], and Francis Bacon [winner, Ithaca Great Playwrights contest, Kitchen Theatre Co.]. She has contributed multiple short works to acclaimed festivals including Raw Impressions, The Drilling Co., manhattantheatresource's Estrogenius, Boomerang Theatre Co., Three Graces, and MTP's Cherry Picking. Next up: a full-scale musical The Pestilence is Coming with NYC's Full Circle Theatre Co. A sometime field reporter for Philly-based Origivation magazine (www.origivation.com), Ms. Gray has interviewed pioneers of the music industry such as Perry Farrell, Daniel Johnson, the Skatalites and Holly Golightly as well as rising stars like Motion City Soundtrack and Melody Gardot. Katie is also a multimedia artist and designer, and has created masks for numerous stage productions including Syracuse University's Caucasian Chalk Circle and Much Ado About Nothing. She is a muralist and educator for the City of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program, working in both the Community Murals and Education Outreach programs. Ms. Gray cofounded A Chip & A Chair Films, LLC and acted as Art Director and Line Producer for the company's first feature If You Could Say It In Words [http://www.IfYouCould-Movie.com].
Plays by Katharine Clark Gray
516 (Five Sixteen) | ||
| 1st Produced: | CSV Cultural and Educational Center - Flamboyan, New York International Fringe Festival | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Roust Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72167 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 2h 0m Drama Multi-Media | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Named for a graduate course in Media Studies, 516 (five sixteen) triangulates a college dropout turned hired-gun term paper auteur, a grad student with a thesis and a secret, and the professor who holds their future in her hands. Driven inexorably forward by pride, desire, and intellectual longing, the trio grapples with the truth as much as each other and discovers to what lengths a person will go to find her true voice. 516 (five sixteen) is a revenge romance for brainiacs, a mash note to the mind. | |||||
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Beef, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | First Flight Reading series | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Boomerang Theatre Co. | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93599 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Subsequent staged reading: PlayPenn "In The Penn" in-house series, July 22 2008. Dir. Nicholas Gray | |||||
Synopsis: | A recent outbreak of a cattle epidemic has stranded beef magnate Herschell Hammond up a certain fabled creek. The public is wary, the Dutch won't take his imports, and his rival restaurateur is running ads around the clock. Then there's Candy, his beloved stepdaughter, visiting "friends" all the way on the coast. Or so he thinks. With a plot thick as a 24-oz. Porterhouse, The Beef is a tale of red-blooded love and vengeance, Chicago-style. | |||||
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Francis Bacon | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | Kitchen Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95206 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4 m roles (for 2-3 actors), 6 f roles (for 3 actors) | |||||
Notes: | This play won 1st prize at the 1st annual "Ithaca Great Playwrights" competition and was produced at KTC as the final play of their 1997-98 season. Director: Wendy Dann. Starring Tony Roach, Leigh Keeley and Kelly Pendergast. With Lela Frechette, John Hayes and Gary Weissbrott. | |||||
Synopsis: | A soup salesman needs a hook. A lonely painter needs a raison d'être. A single mom needs some quiet and a bowl of Lucky Charms. A single moment of weakness brings three isolated souls together, and a teething baby starts a revolution over Broccoli Cheese. Written as Katharine Clark. | |||||
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True Dreams of Wichita | ||
| 1st Produced: | People's Improv Theater (P.I.T.), New York NY | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Spring Shorts 2011 | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54412 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Premiere production directed by Catherine Miller Hardy, and starred Ms. Gray. Subsequent production by 3Graces Theater Co. as part of Spring Shorts evening of 1 act plays at CSV Cultural Center, New York, NY, 2006 | |||||
Synopsis: | Mollie is a Big Freakin' Movie Star, and she's granted you the privilege of an interview. Grab a pen and a sippy cup, and behold the great funhouse mirror of superstarletcelebritydom. From her bout with VD in Tasmania to her time as the wife of the mayor of Wichita, KS, Mollie's got a big ol' heaping spoonful of life lessons. . .though she's not really sure what they mean. Also, she's real hung over. So be gentle. | |||||
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User 927 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lantern Theatre Co. (downstairs), Philadelphia PA | 2008 | ||||
Company: | commissioned by Brat Productions, Philadelphia PA | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93600 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama (thriller / multimedia) | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | contains significant video & projection elements. 1st production: video design by A Chip & A Chair Films. www.chipchair.com. | |||||
Synopsis: | USER 927 combines live performance with dual-projection video to examine the nature of search. LEAH LETTS is ready for a change. Fleeing the fallout from an incident involving her teen daughter (DEENA), Leah abruptly moves the family from Brooklyn to bucolic Osterville, Indiana. Trapped in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of summer, Deena turns to the Internet for companionship-- until Leah applies the brakes. For this summer, she decrees, the Letts ladies are going to "go analog". But Deena soon finds a way around this plan: the local library, staffed by older boy TIM. Deena quickly finds friends online: KIMMI and RYAN, both of whom know how to combat boredom with browsing. They discover AOLStalker.com, where they can sift through other people's lives via the contents of their search logs. But soon after they stumble upon one deviant user-- 927-- Deena goes missing. Leah becomes convinced that the key to finding Deena lies along the twisted path of User 927's queries. Framed by the true events of America Online's leak of 658,000 user search logs to the public, USER 927 examines the nature of search in the Internet era, and how what we seek defines who we are. | |||||
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