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KATE MOIRA RYAN |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Kate Moira Ryan started her career in 1985 as a winner of the Young Playwrights Festival. Her play 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, written with and for comedienne Judy Gold, was produced at Ars Nova in New York City, the Montreal Comedy Festival, and the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach to rave reviews. It will re-open Off-Broadway in the fall of 2006.OTMA was produced by the Atlantic Theatre Company, the Ekaterinburg Youth Theatre in Russia, and the Lake George Theatre Project, and will be seen again at the Powerhouse Theatre at Vassar College in the Fall of 2006. It is published by Playscripts, Inc. Her adaptation of Dorothy Allison's novel Cavedweller premiered at New York Theatre Workshop and is published by Dramatists Play Service. She is an alumna of New Dramatists and has received residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Edward Albee Foundations. She was recently awarded a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation by the Ensemble Studio Theatre as well as an Arnold Weinberger Fellowship to the University of Cincinnati, and two fellowships to New Play Festival in Russia from the Center for International Theatre Development. She was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and received the Joe Calloway Award from New Dramatists.
Plays by Kate Moira Ryan
100 Strikes | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Baseball Monologues, Heineman Educational (ed Lavonne Mueller), 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79206 | |||
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Genre: | monologue One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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25 Questions for a Jewish Mother | ||
| 1st Produced: | Montreal Just For Laughs Festival | - - - | ||||
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 | #46785 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | written by Kate Moira Ryan and Judy Gold | |||||
Synopsis: | It's the result of a five-year journey across the country taken by the authors, in which they interviewed over 50 Jewish women of different ages, ethnicities, and occupations. The play is the result of that work--a portrait of what makes a Jewish mother a Jewish mother | |||||
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Autobiography of Aiken Fiction, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Samuel Beckett theater, NY | 1992 | ||||
Company: | Women's 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 | #83260 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Bass for Picasso | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 May 2010 | |||||
Company: | Theatre Breaking Through Barriers | |||||
| 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 | #113597 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | In Bass for Picasso, amputee and food writer for the New York Times Francesca Danieli throws a dinner party for her friends recreating recipes from the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. The guest list includes Pilar, her multilingual art detective lover, who has spent time in Guantanamo for visa problems; Bricka Matson, a lesbian widow with a small child and Republican in-laws who are trying to gain custody; Joe, an OB/GYN whose lover is a geographically challenged crystal meth addict; and Kev, a playwright who has recently fallen off the wagon and written a soon-to-open Off-Broadway play about all of them. It's an insanely funny, irreverent 80-minute look at gay and lesbian life in the new millennium. | |||||
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Beebo Brinker Chronicles, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fourth Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street, NY | 01 Oct 2007 | ||||
Company: | Hourglass Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2346-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73353 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | written by Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman | |||||
Synopsis: | stage adaptation of the 1950s and 1960s lesbian pulp novels by Ann Bannon. The following description is from the show's press release: "Set in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles celebrates the era when 'the love that dares not speak its name' began breaking the old rules. Fueled by booze and furtive sex, the play follows the lives and loves of Laura, Beth, and Beebo as they navigate uncharted territories of desire. Beth and Laura, secret lovers in college, went separate ways after graduation: Beth married and had children, Laura moved to New York. Both pine for each other, but before they can reunite, they find themselves entangled in the web of Beebo Brinker, a butch denizen of the bars with a soft spot for young lesbians fresh off the bus | |||||
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Casting Call | ||
| 1st Produced: | Clurman Theatre | 22 Jun 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 | #129508 | |||
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Genre: | ten min play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Some of Our Parts a program of seven ten-minute plays about disabilitiesand the people affected by them | |||||
Synopsis: | follows a character named "Ike Schambelan" as he tries to interest producers in casting disabled actors. | |||||
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Cavedweller | ||
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| 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 | #46786 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Fatal Shore, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kraine Theatre, NY, USA | 2006 | ||||
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| 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 | #55039 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of The Australia Project | |||||
Synopsis: | explores the relationship between the United States and Australia | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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G-d Doesn't Pay Rent Here | ||
| 1st Produced: | Empty Space Theatre, Seattle | 2001 | ||||
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 | #121990 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Written by Kate Moira Ryan and Judy Gold | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Judy Show, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | DR2 | 06 Jul 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 | #130556 | |||
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Genre: | multimedia comedy 80 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | written by Judy Gold and Kate Moira Ryan | |||||
Synopsis: | Building on the success of her show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, funny woman Judy Gold returns to the stage in this hilarious look at her life through the lens of the classic sitcoms of her youth. With multimedia, original music, laughter, and love, Judy shows us how she balances family and ambition with a little help from our favorite TV shows of the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties. | |||||
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Leaving Queens | ||
| 1st Produced: | Women's Project Theater, NY | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Women's 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 | #83494 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Book and lyrics by Kate Moira Ryan; Music by Kim D. Sherman | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Master Class with Cassiopeia O'Hara | ||
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| 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 | #134227 | |||
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Genre: | 10 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of 10x25. This is an all-commissioned one-act festival of ten-minute plays by 25 of the playwrights who have been produced at Atlantic Theater Company since 1985. 10x25 will unite and reunite Atlantic ensemble members, playwrights, and frequent guest actors and directors in three separate offerings of ten minute plays, which will run the gamut of theatrical styles and content. 10x25 will feature new works by David Auburn, Leslie Ayvazian, Annie Baker, Stephen Belber, Bekah Brunstetter, Moira Buffini, Jez Butterworth, Ethan Coen, Kia Corthron, Tom Donaghy, John Guare, Kevin Heelan, Tina Howe, Craig Lucas, David Mamet, Peter Parnell, David Pittu, Keith Reddin, Kate Robin, Kate Moira Ryan, Edwin Sanchez, Sam Shepard, Lucy Thurber, Jeff Whitty, and Bill Wrubel. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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OTMA | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York University (Hot Ink Festival workshop) (New York, NY, United States) | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61275 | |||
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Genre: | 65-75 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 4 females | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Under house arrest, the four daughters of the last Tsar of Russia rehearse Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard as they await their fate. They fight and make up, lose and gain hope of survival, and ultimately bond together in their final days. | |||||
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