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Kathleen Warnock

KATHLEEN WARNOCK

  

Nationality:    USA
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Kathleen Warnock is a New York City-based playwright. She grew up in Philadelphia, and also lived and worked in the Deep South. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where she majored in Ancient Studies. She was Assistant to the Artistic Director, Sabra Jones, at Mirror Repertory Company, the off-Broadway alternating repertory company, Geraldine Page, Artist in Residence. She has studied playwriting with Henry Miller, Susan Miller, Nicole Burdette and Tina Howe. She is one of the founding members of En Avant Playwrights, a collaborative group of theater artists who have produced work ranging from evenings of original one-acts, to full-length entries in FringeNYC and FrigidNY. She also maintains the En Avant Playwrights bulletin board, which collects and posts opportunities for playwrights to submit their work (since 2003). To the Top, a full-length play, won the South Carolina Playwrights Festival, and was produced by Trustus Theater (SC). Her full-length play, Grieving for Genevievewas produced in the Midtown International Theater Festival (NY). It won the John Golden Award for Playwriting. Rock the Line was produced by Emerging Artists Theater (NY) and won the Robert Chesley Award for Emerging Playwright. Some Are People was also produced by EAT in NYC and at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Some Are People won the Arts & Letters Prize. Outlookwas also produced by EAT in Dublin. That's Her Way premiered at FrigidNY in Feb. 2013, and was seen in Dublin in May, where it was nominated for the Oscar Wilde Award, and later for the New York Innovative Theater Award. Her full-length, one-act and short plays have been seen regionally and internationally. She is Playwrights Company Manager for EAT and curates the Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwrights Project for TOSOS. She is Ambassador of Love for North America for the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Kathleen's fiction, non-fiction and interviews have appeared in many print and online publications. She was series editor for Best Lesbian Erotica 2010-2014. She wrote the liner notes for the Joan Jett CD "Unfinished Business." Kathleen hosts Drunken! Careening! Writers! a monthly reading series at KGB Bar, since 2004. She tweets @kwarnockny. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

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        Adventures of , The         All Good Cretins Go to Heaven         Around the Horn         Bushel of Crabs         Further Adventures Of. . .         Grieving for Genevieve         How To Get Married In Five Steps And Seventeen Years         I'm Gonna Run Away         Julie Andrews Is The Devil         Night Rides         Rock the Line         Rocks in the Bed         Secret Angel         Sharing the Pie         Some are People         Space Between Heartbeats, The         Staying Put         Ted's Head         That's Her Way         To the Top         Wash It Out         What To Throw Out



Adventures of , The

Adventures of   , The
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Notes:
part of Emerging Artists theatre presents EATfest, the fall edition of the company's short play series

1st Produced:
Producers Club, NY     2007

Organisations:
Emerging Artists Theatre

1st Published:
in 2008: the Best Ten-Minute Plays 3 or More Actors, Smith & Kraus, (2009)   

Music:
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short play Ten Min

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All Good Cretins Go to Heaven

All Good Cretins Go to Heaven
CBGB's is closed. the end of the 70s came and went. But Joey Ramone is still an angel, and his ghost breathes new life into a lost fan.
- press release

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in 2009: the Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More Actors, Smith & Kraus (December 1, 2009)   

Music:
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Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Around the Horn

Synopsis:
the African-American groundskeeper of a minor league baseball team finds she has something in common with the Iranian refugee in a small Georgia town. She offers him a chance for redemption.

Notes:
Produced in New Play Festival, Gardner-Webb University (N.C.) April 2004. Will be published As part of festival Anthology Fall 2004

1st Produced:
Gardner-Webb University     2004

Organisations:
Gardner-Webb University

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
play Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bushel of Crabs

Synopsis:
A man and a woman, former lovers, meet for the first time in 10 years in a crabhouse in Baltimore. She wants something from him, but not what he thinks she wants.

Notes:
First produced by En Avant Playwrights As part of their evening of new work "Strange Change" in Feb. 2004. Forthcoming in American Globe/Turnip theater Festival NYC April 2004; Mae West Fest, Seattle, July 2004

1st Produced:
-     2004

Organisations:
En Avant Playwrights

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
play Ten Min. - - Lesbian, one act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Further Adventures Of. . .

Synopsis:
The radio adventures of Maggie Day as she uncovers the secrets of Commander Zoron and Prince Kal. And the actors who played them Drake Darling and Frank Gallagher

Notes:
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1st Produced:
TOSOS Playwrights Festival     2014

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Gay full length comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Grieving for Genevieve

Synopsis:
Grieving for Genevieve, the story of a tough-as-nails Baltimore matriarch with three tough-as-nails daughters, including an oft-married musician, a hard-drinking, cursing nun, and an icy businesswoman who avoids her family whenever possible

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Jewel Box Space, NY     2005

Organisations:
En Avant Playwrights and the Sixth Annual Midtown International Theater Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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How To Get Married In Five Steps And Seventeen Years

Synopsis:
Two women are finally able to marry seventeen years after they first met

Notes:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Lesbian one act

Parts:
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I'm Gonna Run Away

Synopsis:
Two fans, an older obsessive collector, and a young starstruck young woman musician, wait in the parking lot of a rock club to meet their idol. the security guy's job is to make sure they don't get to do it

Notes:
Winner of Audience Favorite And Best Actor Awards At Turnip theater 15-Minute Play Festival

1st Produced:
Turnip     2000

Organisations:
Turnip Theater

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
play Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Julie Andrews Is The Devil

Synopsis:
Lesbian folk singer Marissa meets ex-nun Tabitha on Commercial Street in Provincetown during Women's Week

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
TOSOS

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Lesbian one act

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Night Rides

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Tina Howe, David Marrero, Dan Shore, Ed Valentine, Kathleen Warnock

1st Produced:
Frederick Loewe Theater, NY     2004

Organisations:
En Avant Playwrights

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Tina Howe, David Marrero, Dan Shore, Ed Valentine, Kathleen Warnock

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Rock the Line

Synopsis:
Seven hardcore rock fans gather in a parking club to await a show starring their favorite performer

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theater Five, NY     2006

Organisations:
Emerging Artists Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
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Play/Drama

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Rocks in the Bed

Synopsis:
Two young men visit a Greenwich Village landmark, and the woman who owns it to find out something important about the old poet who died there.

Notes:
10-minute play; finalist Actors theater of Louisville National 10-Minute Play Contest. Produced As part of "Now You See 'Em" A night of new work by En Avant Playwrights, Loewe theater, New York City, spring 2003.

1st Produced:
Loewe Theater, New York City     2003

Organisations:
En Avant Playwrights

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
play Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Secret Angel

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Tada Theatre, New York     11 Nov 2009

Organisations:
EATFest

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short play

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Sharing the Pie

Synopsis:
A bittersweet, contemporary tale of family, friends and unrequited love.

Notes:
part of 2008 Fall EATfest

1st Produced:
Roy Arias Studios & Theatres, NY     2008

Organisations:
Emerging Artists Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Some are People

Synopsis:
A different kind of summer in Provincetown, for tworegulars and the interesting woman who can even shake up a drag queen.
nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Emerging Artists theatre's 8th Annual Spring EATFest, A festival of new one-act plays.

1st Produced:
Theater Five, NY     2007

Organisations:
Emerging Artists Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
play One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Space Between Heartbeats, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Allison, A college professor, hires Mandy to help her clear out her Apartment And move. Allison, who had Always been with men, falls in love with Mandy. Mandy, whose lover was disabled in An Accident, finds herself falling for Allison.

1st Produced:
In Sam French/Love Creek Off-Off Broadway Play Festival     2000

Organisations:
HomoGenius

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play One Act

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Staying Put

Synopsis:
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Notes:
later enlarged as "That's her way"

1st Produced:
Eatfest At Emerging Artists Theater    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
10 min play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ted's Head

Ted's Head
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in the Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011, Smith & Kraus; (June 1, 2012)   

Music:
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10 min play

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That's Her Way

Synopsis:
From high school to middle age, Ferro and Stuckey have never been able to get it right. . .or get over each other.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Frigidny     01 Feb 2013

Organisations:
En Avant Playwrights

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   

Music:
-

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Genre:
60 min one act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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To the Top

Synopsis:
In the competitive world of Division I women's basketball, the Lady Bulldogs fight other teams (and each other) to be the best in the country, under the sometimes-questionable leadership of head coach Norrie Norris. Norris and her staff (assistant coach Spider Webb and trainer Alice Farrell) try to bring the best out of their freshman stars, Mary Ellen Donohue and Faith Peavy, and senior guard Julie Stankavage while avoiding the scrutiny of reporter Casey Carter, and Mary Ellen's mother Meredith.

Notes:
Winner, South Carolina Playwrights Festival

1st Produced:
Trustus Theater (South Carolina    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1991   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  16            Other:  -

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Wash It Out

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Short Play

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What To Throw Out

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Provincetown Playwrights Festival     2013

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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