Theater

Katherine’s stage work includes a variety of writing and directing credits. 

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PLAYWRIGHT

Read about some of her writing highlights below, or check out her page on the New Play Exchange.

ORTA tells the story of Tajana and Kasper, two newlyweds honeymooning in Northern Italy, whose encounters with some 4th-century saints and a pair of serpents force them to face some hard truths about their relationship. It was developed as part of The Vagrancy’s Writers’ Group, and was a part of Blossoming 2023. 

In RELIABLE NARRATORS, Sam is going to tell us a story. It’s a story about the complications of friendship. It’s a story about heartbreak, the triumph of love, and the human condition. It’s a relatable and universal story. But also, it’s just a story…or is it? RELIABLE NARRATORS was part of Blossoming 2022, The Vagrancy’s first in-person event since the onset of the pandemic. 

WINCHESTER/WINCHESTER tells the stories of Gænburh & Æscwyn and Jennifer & Amanda: two pairs of teenage sisters living in Medieval Winchester, England, and 20th-century Winchester, Virginia. Developed completely virtually with The Vagrancy due to the ongoing pandemic, it had a public online reading as part of Blossoming 2021. WINCHESTER/WINCHESTER was selected for Clamour Theatre Company’s Clay & Water Retreat 2023, and was also part of the Young Actor’s Studio New Play Festival.

SLOWLY AND THEN ALL AT ONCE is set in the Los Angeles of the not-too-distant future, as climate change has widened the gap between the haves and the have-nots.  It was developed with The Vagrancy’s 2019-2020 writers’ group (which, thanks to the pandemic, culminated in a virtual reading!). It was a Semi-Finalist for the 2022 Ashland New Plays Festival,

WHO PUT BELLA IN THE WYCH ELM? uses a historical mystery from 1943 England to explore the ways in which identities are imposed upon women. It was developed with The Vagrancy’s 2018-2019 writers’ group. A semi-finalist for The Athena Project’s Plays-In-Progress Series, there is also a Young Actors’ version available for use in high schools and educational settings. 

THE SNAKE GOD OF FIJI (A HEDDA GABLER PREQUEL) is…well, it’s a prequel to HEDDA GABLER! It was developed through The Vagrancy’s 2017-2018 writers’ group and received additional developmental support from dramaturg Penny Cole in 2020 thanks to the Athena Project‘s Plays In Progress Series. It was also a part of The Blank‘s Living Room Series in the Fall of 2020.

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DRIFT explores the ways in which the members of a family are pushed apart over the course of a decade, juxtaposing their gradual alienation with the process of continental drift that has shaped our earth. It was initially developed at the HBMG Foundation National Winter Playwrights’ Retreat in 2016, and was workshopped at Paper Wing Theatre Company’s 2017 Summer Play Reading Festival. DRIFT was a finalist for both Relative Theatrics’ 2019 Playwrights Voiced Series and the Garry Marshall Theatre’s 2019 New Works Festival.

THE OCEAN DEEP asks whether it is more important to be a good person or a good friend? And also, there are sea creatures. It was initially developed with The Vagrancy with their 2016-2017 writers’ group, and then selected for their intensive workshop process, Playdate, in 2018. It was a semi-finalist for the 2018 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and an alternate for the 2019 New Comedies Festival at B Street Theatre. 

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THE FERMI PARADOX is a full-length play about love, betrayal and a dance competition in outer space. It was originally developed through the Seedlings program at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, and subsequently won the 2015 Davey Foundation‘s Theatre Grant. The grant provided for a week-long workshop and staged reading with the Salt Lake Acting Company. It was later featured at the Campfire Theatre Festival in September, 2018.

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THE DRUMS is a five-minute play about two computer programmers struggling to draw the line between good and evil. It was performed in San Francisco and Berkeley in July, 2016 as the precursor to All Terrain Theater‘s production of SUDDENLY SPLIT AND SWIPING OVER.

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DIRECTOR

“Troublemaker,” by Sharyn Rothstein, is one of THE PUSSY-GRABBER PLAYS, and Katherine directed it for the 2019 LA Pop-up production of the show, with all proceeds donated to We the Woman collective. 

Lost Moon Radio’s THE COMPLETE HUMAN EXPERIENCE played at the Lyric Hyperion in the summer of 2017, and is a comedic musical romp through all the stages of life. 

FRIENDS IN TRANSIENT PLACES, by Jonathan Caren, is a whimsical full-length play exploring the connections that are formed between a group of strangers on the same flight from New York to LA. Katherine directed the World Premiere for Fresh Produce’d LA in Fall of 2016.

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SUDDENLY SPLIT & SWIPING OVER is a one-woman show about dating in the digital era. Written by Tracy Held Potter, it premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in Los Angeles in June, 2016 with Susan-Kate Heaney starring, and continued its run in Northern California later that summer with Angela Jaymes.

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MIX TAPE is Lost Moon Radio‘s hilariously nostalgic ’90s-themed live show. It played at Westside Comedy in Los Angeles in August, 2014.

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