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KATO MCNICKLE |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Kato McNickle is a Connecticut-based artist, playwright, and dog wrangler. Awards and fellowships include The Ensemble Studio Theater New Voices Fellowship for Fencers; The Pen Is a Mighty Sword Award from The Virtual Theatre Project for A Yankee Trader; An Inaugural Dramatist Award from Gorilla Theatre for To Die for Want of Lobster; The African-American Playwriting Award from UCSD and The Pen Is a Mighty Sword 1st-runner-up for In Search of a Better Life with Elvis; The Robert Lehan One-Act Play Award for Leak.
Plays by Kato McNickle
girls in boys pants | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vassar Experimental Theatre, Poughkeepsie, NY | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Vassar Experimental Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #69782 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Single set, no intermission, 70 minutes. | |||||
Synopsis: | An alternative love story. The tension between the world of words and the world of art. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Joan's Voices | ||
| 1st Produced: | Spirit of Broadway Theater, Norwich, CT | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Spirit of Broadway Theater | |||||
| 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 | #69781 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Single set, no intermission, 100 minutes. | |||||
Synopsis: | Joan's Voices presents an intimate struggle of faith verses convention, which has its ultimate realization as a single choice between life or death. It is the last three days in the life of Joan of Arc as she awaits execution. Through conversations with her voices Joan comes to accept her fate at the hands of her enemies in this tragic coming of age story. | |||||
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Swimming the Ocean | ||
| 1st Produced: | Looking Glass Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #54726 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Looking Glass Spring 2006 Writer/Directors Forum | |||||
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To Die for Want of Lobster | ||
| 1st Produced: | Just Off-Broadway Theatre, Kansas City, MO | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Gorilla Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #69780 | |||
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 with tragic consequences Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | To Die for Want of Lobster begins with perpetual slacker Jack believing his luck has changed after meeting the beautiful, sexy Lena over a blackjack table. Barabara, awakened by the racket the two are creating, is livid to find that Jack has brought this strange woman into her house. To Die for Want of Lobster brings these three people together; Barbara, the bookish schoolteacher; Jack, her brother waiting for a divorce and between careers; and Lena, the beautiful stranger who comes into their lives demanding not to be bored. | |||||
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Yankee Trader, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | El Portal Theatre, North Hollywood, CA | 2006 | ||||
Company: | The Virtual Theatre Project | |||||
| 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 | #69779 | |||
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 | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Several sparse interior locations; three men, three women, one boy & one girl. Running-time 2 hours 10 minutes. | |||||
Synopsis: | A Yankee Trader finds Dillon Taber down on his luck and the law on his doorstep. In a moment of desperation he trades his wife for a car in order to preserve his freedom. This bargain brings disaster to his marriage, his children and his diginity after he loses the car to the waters of Long Island sound in the Hurricane of 1938. A Yankee Trader barnstorms roles of race, ethics and gender in a turbulent time of great change in America. A time when the world itself was poised on the brink of war, plague, and social uprising that would throw it into the modern era. | |||||
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