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KARA LEE CORTHRON |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
Kara Lee Corthron's (Playwright) plays include JULIUS BY DESIGN (Fulcrum Theater, 2011; Penumbra, 2012), ETCHED IN SKIN ON A SUNLIT NIGHT (NEA Access to Artistic Excellence Grant; InterAct Theatre, 2012), THE GERM PROJECT: AliceGraceAnon (New Georges, 2011), HOLLY DOWN IN HEAVEN (Princess Grace Award), SPOOKWATER (O'Neill Conference Finalist), and WILD BLACK-EYED SUSANS (Helen Merrill Award). Other awards/honors include: The Vineyard Theatre's 3rd Annual Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, Lincoln Center's Lecomte du Nouy Prize (three-time recipient), an E.S.T./Sloan Commission, the Theodore Ward Prize, the New Professional Theatre Writers Award, residencies at MacDowell, Skriouklaustur (Iceland), the Millay Colony, and Ledig House and she was twice finalist for New Dramatists membership. Current commissions: South Coast Rep, New Georges, and Naked Angels. Play development: African Continuum (D.C.), ACT Seattle/Hansberry Project, Ars Nova, CenterStage (Baltimore), Electric Pear Productions, Horizon Theatre (Atlanta), Naked Angels, New Dramatists, New Georges, The Orchard Project, Page 73 Productions, Penumbra, PlayPenn, The Shalimar, TheatreWorks, the Vineyard Theatre, and Voice and Vision among others. TV: staff writer for NBC's KINGS (2008-2009). Kara is a Juilliard alumna, instructor at Primary Stages' Einhorn School of Performing Arts, and member of the 2010 Ars Nova Play Group, 'Wright On! Playwrights Group (co-founder), Blue Roses Productions, the Dramatists Guild and is a New Georges Affiliated Artist.
Plays by Kara Lee Corthron
Binge: Short Plays with all the Fixins! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Interart Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||||
Company: | The Shalimar | |||||
| 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 | #92698 | |||
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Genre: | short plays | |||||
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Notes: | written by Michael John Garces, Kara Lee Corthron, Sibyl Kempson, Kirk Lynn, Bekah Brunstetter, Mando Alvarado | |||||
Synopsis: | In these short plays food is a character, a metaphor, a dramatic force of its own. Binding the plays together is a series of provocative videos that address the grotesque reality of today's food politics | |||||
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Cave Krewe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Manhattan Theatre Souce | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in 2007: The Best Ten-Minute Plays For 2 Actors, Smith & Kraus; Lawrence Harbison edition (July 15, 2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-57525-589-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57934 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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| On a wintry afternoon, two adolescents-both desperately in need of a friend-celebrate Mardi Gras as best they can. | |||||
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Germ Project, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 3LD Art & Technology Center | 20 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | New Georges | |||||
| 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 | #129027 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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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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Holly Down in Heaven | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2008 | ||||
Company: | New Georges (workshop) | |||||
| 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 | #85194 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | Several dolls & puppets | |||||
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Synopsis: | Holly collects dolls. Holly is a born-again Christian. Holly is a fifteen-year-old, brainy, outspoken, spoiled, tyrannical brat. And she won't leave her basement. She's also pregnant. In this quasi-comedy about a quasi-adult, a memorable teen is confronted with the speeding train of maturity and a host of life-changing choices without time to consider the consequences. Without much guidance from her well-meaning, but inept father or her less-than-bright boyfriend, can Holly's real friends-her dolls-help her make the treacherous transition from child to adult or will the job require the touch of a special Homo sapien? | |||||
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Julius by Design | ||
| 1st Produced: | Access Theatre | 05 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | Fulcrum 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 | #129952 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Josephine and Laurel are a couple entering their golden years. But life hasn't been so golden since the untimely and violent death of their teenaged son. Crossword puzzles, holiday planning, and squabbling over tea or Sanka are the activities they use to get through their days. When a surprising letter arrives near the seven-year anniversary of their son's death, Jo becomes determined to finally fill the enormous hole in her life in any way she can. | |||||
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Ladybug Gonna Getcha | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre | 09 Sep 2009 | ||||
Company: | Ensemble Studio Theatre: Going to the River Festival 2009 | |||||
| 1st Published: | in 2010 The Best 10-Minute Plays, Smith & Kraus (September 1, 2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1575257723 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #105067 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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| Ladybug an up and coming rock singer. On the night of her break through concert her manager abandons her in favour of a group called Blondie that he thinks will be a bigger success | |||||
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Like a Cow or an Elephant | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Theatre School at DePaul, Merle Reskin Theatre | 2007 | ||||
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 | #47367 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Like a Cow or An Elephant is the story of Kreena, a woman around thirty years of age, who works a job as a janitor in an office building-a job she cherishes-and lives in a house with her eccentric, history-obsessed mother. Kreena's methodical, repetitive life is, in part, due to a mild developmental disability. Kreena also feels trapped by her mother's controlling influence. Despite the obstacles she must confront, which also include a brother in narcotics rehabilitation, a new co-worker invading the private sanctuary of her job, and a mysterious stranger with secrets, Kreena can't help but see the best in all people. In Like a Cow or An Elephant, Kreena must travel the difficult path from her safe shell to independence and self-actualization. | |||||
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Tomb Raider: Anniversary | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova | 01 Feb 2011 | ||||
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 | #124454 | |||
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Synopsis: | Part of The Wii Plays. This is an evening of original short plays and live music, inspired by the titles of Nintendo Wii games. The selections are: Wii Tennis by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Barbie as the Island Princess by Tasha Gordon-Solmon, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Let's Tap by Janine Nabers, directed by Portia Krieger, Marvel Superhero Squad by Chad Beckim, directed by Stephen Brackett, Buck Fever by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Portia Krieger, Alien Monster Bowling League by Matthew Lopez, directed by Laura Savia, Tomb Raider: Anniversary by Kara Lee Corthron, directed by Laura Savia, Burger Island by Gregory Moss, directed by Portia Krieger, All Star Cheer Squad by Jenny Connell, directed by Laura Savia, Sword Play: Speed Slice by Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Bob the Builder: Festival of Fun by Amy Herzog, directed by Stephen Brackett, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games by Joe Tracz, dir. by Stephen Brackett. | |||||
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Tom's Children | ||
| 1st Produced: | workshop readings June Havoc Theatre | 28 Jan 2011 | ||||
Company: | Blue Roses Productions | |||||
| 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 | #124179 | |||
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Genre: | short plays | |||||
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Notes: | Written by Kara Lee Corthron, Gary Giovannetti, Tom Matthew Wolfe, John Yearley, Richard Cottrell, Dawson Moore, Craig Pospisil. Conceived and Directed By: Erma Duricko | |||||
Synopsis: | an evening of short plays inspired by the poetry of Tennessee Williams. | |||||
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Wild Black-Eyed Susans | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ethnic Cultural Center, Seattle, WA | 2008 | ||||
Company: | ACT / Hansberry Project & University of Washington | |||||
| 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 | #85193 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Bitter awareness of absence fills an expectant mother's belly, while the earth seeks to consume her best friend, husband, and sister. On the edge of poverty, might a newly adopted French accent, a Heineken, and a coal mine rescue these four souls? | |||||
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