|
|
KEVIN KAUTZMAN (1982 - ) |
|
Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
|
|
Literary Agent: n/a |
Kevin is a playwright originally from North Dakota pursuing his M.F.A. with a focus in playwriting and screenwriting as a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He began studying playwriting in London at the Royal Court Theatre, where he became a core writer out of the Young Writers Program. He has received commissions from Red Eye and History Theatre, and his work has been performed, read and/or developed at places including the American Story Project, the Living Theatre, the New Theatre Project, Nouveau 47, the Players' Guild Theater, the Playwrights' Center, Poliglot Theater, the Soho Theatre Studio (UK), the UK National Student Drama Festival, and Zeitgeist Theater. Honors include the Jerome and Michener fellowships and Tennessee Williams Scholarship (THEN WAVES), Lavender Magazine's Best Playwriting (IRIS), and the International Student Playscript Competition and Repertory Theatre Iowa's Alpha Project awards (COYOTE). He has been a finalist for the Yale Drama Series and Pen Center awards (THEN WAVES) and the NNPN Smith Prize (QUIVER). He is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota, where he studied history and philosophy, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild Inc., the Playwrights' Center, and Scriptworks. More information about Kevin's work, along with script excerpts, can be found at www.kevinkautzman.com.
Plays by Kevin Kautzman
Coyote | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Margo Jones Theatre, Fair Park, Dallas TX | 26 Jan 2012 | ||||
Company: | Nouveau 47 | |||||
| 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 | #136657 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | COYOTE was written with the support of a 2009-10 Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. COYOTE received its first staged reading in April of 2011, directed by Phil Mann, at the UK National Student Drama Festival in Scarborough. COYOTE received its first US reading in May of 2011 in Nouveau 47's New Works/New Voices Festival at the Margo Jones Theatre in Dallas, Texas, directed by Diana Gonzalez. It won the 2011 International Student Playscript Competition and the inaugural Alpha Project: Playwright in Residence award from Repertory Theatre of Iowa. The play premiered at Nouveau 47 under the direction of Donny Covington with design from William Anderson and projection from Stephanie Busing. The cast was as follows: Anna - Marti Etheridge; Luke - Stephen Witkowicz; Vince - Art Peden | |||||
Synopsis: | Night. Arizona, on the border between Mexico and the United States of America. When a young man joins a lone minuteman on weekly patrol, words fly and a game of questions begins over who represents the "real America" and who decides where the line in the sand is drawn. COYOTE is an award-winning play by Kevin Kautzman that casts light on one of the darkest corners of recent history: the uncertain line between the United States and its neighbor to the south. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
If You Start a Fire [Be Prepared to Burn] | ||
| 1st Produced: | The New Theatre Project, Ypsilanti MI | 10 Feb 2012 | ||||
Company: | The New 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 | #136658 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Tragicomedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 | |||||
Notes: | IF YOU START A FIRE [BE PREPARED TO BURN] was written with the support of a 2009-10 Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. It received its first reading at the New Theatre Project in Ypsilanti, Michigan in September of 2011. The play premiered at the New Theatre Project under the artistic direction of Keith Paul Medelis and directed by Natividad Salgado with designs by Janine Woods Thoma. The cast was as follows: Chris/Chrixxx - Peter Giessl; Lucy/Luxxx - Elise Randall | |||||
Synopsis: | An Internet sex comedy for the Recession Generation! Lucy and Chris are typical American twenty-somethings struggling to survive the Great Recession with their dignity intact. They hate their jobs like most everybody else, but they need the insurance, and at least they have each other. Right? When Chris loses his job, he convinces Lucy they should launch a boutique sex website and sell the idea of her as an all-American girl next door, somehow both pure and hedonistic at the same time& | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Iris | ||
| 1st Produced: | Red Eye, Minneapolis MN | 08 Oct 2010 | ||||
Company: | Red Eye | |||||
| 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 | #122891 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | IRIS is an adaptation of Charles Mee's IPHIGENIA 2.0. It was commissioned by Red Eye in Minneapolis in the summer of 2010 and written with the support of a 2009-10 Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis - www.kevinkautzman.com/iris | |||||
Synopsis: | Iris believes it's her wedding day and couldn't be happier, but in reality her father has conspired to sacrifice her to appease his demanding soldiery, well meaning men who will only go to war upon seeing their leader offer up that which he holds dearest. Based on Charles Mee's IPHIGENIA 2.0, itself based on Euripides' IPHIGENIA AT AULIS, IRIS examines the high price of an unjust war and questions our assumptions about the nature of marriage, leadership, and human history itself. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Rosemary | ||
| 1st Produced: | Minnesota History Center, Saint Paul MN | 21 Jan 2012 | ||||
Company: | History Theatre in 1968: The Year That Rocked the World | |||||
| 1st Published: | Mason's Road, Vol. 1 Issue 2; www.masonsroad.com, 01 Dec 2011 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136659 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | 10 Minute Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | ROSEMARY was commissioned as part of 1968 for use in Raw Stages: New Works Festival by History Theatre of St Paul, Minnesota. ROSEMARY was developed with support from Scriptworks in the form of a 2011 Seed grant. It premiered in History Theatre's 1968: THE YEAR THAT ROCKED THE WORLD, directed by Ron Peluso and with the following cast: BOBBY - Randy Schmeling; NURSE - Lynnea Monique Doublette; ROSEMARY - Karen Weber | |||||
Synopsis: | Summer, 1968. Rosemary Clooney, the famous singer, spends a sleepless night while haunted the memory of Senator Robert Kennedy and his assassination. Rosemary must consider what might have been, and what still might be, in an America riven by violence and discord, this as she struggles to revive the one thing that matters most to her: her singing voice. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Then Waves | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Players' Guild Theatre, Canton OH | 23 Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | The Players' Guild Theatre New Play Conservatory | |||||
| 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 | #122892 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | THEN WAVES received readings by Poliglot Theater (directed by John Hansen-Bravetti) and the Living Theatre (directed by Steve Capra) in New York City during the summer of 2008. The script was then work-shopped and read at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis during January of 2010 as part of their Ruth Easton New Play Series, there directed by Brian Balcom and with dramaturgy from Sarah Slight - www.kevinkautzman.com/thenwaves. The play was a finalist for both the Yale Drama Series and the Pen Center awards. The play premiered at the Players Guild Theatre under the direction of Craig Joseph. The cast was as follows: Brady - Craig Joseph; Cailin - PJ Calac; Ryan - Christopher Gales; Thee - Maria Work | |||||
Synopsis: | A discharged American soldier returns from war to do violence upon his estranged son, who may not be his at all. Set in the American Midwest, THEN WAVES explores the issues of violence's echo, the cost of war, and the impulses toward destruction that ravage families and destroy the future. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Very Stagehand Christmas: Reindeer Apocalypse Storm, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc. (2012) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138399 | |||
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 | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Teen Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Anywhere High School's Drama Club is about to stage yet another infamously terrible holiday play by their oft-absent drama teacher, Mr. Colby, when he departs for a sabbatical. Left to lead themselves, the backstage crew decides to stage their own action-packed holiday play about the first Christmas after the Apocalypse: Reindeer Apocalypse Storm! The problem is, there's no budget, people are quitting left and right, and the new playwright has no idea that his play is ridiculous. Will school spirit, artistic collaboration, and cyborg reindeer be enough to overcome the odds and create a hit holiday show? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
