Kate E. Ryan

Jul 15

13P is about to implode.

So go see our last production, Sarah Ruhl’s MELANCHOLY PLAY, running July 18-27…

Feb 17

Matchbox Reading Series

My play MARK SMITH will be featured in Crowded Fire Theater’s Matchbox Reading Series on Tuesday March 13th here in San Francisco. I look forward to delving into this piece again after working on it with 13P in NYC several years ago. Check out the other plays in the series, too (including The Bereaved by my old grad school chum Thomas Bradshaw). Readings are at Muse Gallery, 614 Alabama Street. Schedule: http://www.crowdedfire.dreamhosters.com/2012/02/in-the-matchbox/

Nov 20

I feel fortunate to have been chosen to be a Resident Playwright at the Playwrights Foundation here in San Francisco… It’s a four-year residency offering support, regular playwright meetings, community, and other great opportunities.

http://www.playwrightsfoundation.org/index.php?p=72

San Francisco One-Minute Play Festival

Excited to be part of this Dec. 17th and 18th… If you’re in the Bay Area, come check it out! Many good playwrights wrestling with the task of writing a 60-second play.

Jun 21

Bay Area Playwrights Festival

My play SCIENCE IS CLOSE will be featured in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival this July. I’m working on it with the amazing Marissa Wolf. We’re currently casting and gearing up for the developmental rehearsals…

Apr 20

TCG Conference in June

I’m a speaker at the 2011 TCG National Conference in this year, which will be held in L.A. June 16-18. The theme is, “What if…” and I’m on a panel called “What if… Artists Do it Themselves?” Rob Handel (Managing Director of 13P) and I will be talking about our experiences with 13P. The panel will also include artists from the playwrights collectives Workhaus (based in Minneapolis) and DogEar (based in L.A.).

Sep 9

SF, Dot, NYC…

*** I moved from NYC to San Francisco!

*** Emma Griffin is directing a production of Dot up at Bard College this October. Details to follow, but here’s a link to Emma’s website… http://emmagriffin.net/

*** Check out many great plays happening in the New York area right now (that I’m missing, sadly):

Orange, Hat & Grace by Gregory S. Moss at Soho Rep (Greg wrote this play in the Soho Rep Lab the first year I Co-Chaired it… and it’s a great one, very dark.. and it features the incomparable Matt Maher!) http://www.sohorep.org/current.html

Roadkill Confidential by Sheila Callaghan at Clubbed Thumb http://www.clubbedthumb.org/

We Have Always Lived in the Castle at Yale Rep, by Adam Bock and Todd Almond (based on the novel by Shirley Jackson), directed by Anne Kauffman http://www.yalerep.org/index.html

Jun 25

13P's THE ZERO HOUR opens this Sunday

by Madeleine George, directed by Adam Greenfield.

Our 10th production (for those unfamiliar with 13P, we set out to produce 13 scripts, one by each of our 13 playwright members).

Here’s an interview with Madeleine, entitled “The Shipwrecked Experiments of Madeleine George”: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2010/06/theater/the-shipwrecked-experiments-of-madeleine-george

May 27

DOT in Summerworks 2010

Performances start Sunday June 6th and run until Saturday June 12th, with no show on Wednesday June 9th. Shows are at 8pm at The Ohio Theater on Wooster St. Tickets are $18.

Director Anne Kauffman, composer Mike Iveson and I have been working on the show for a while (we workshopped the piece with Soho Rep and then with the Vineyard) and we’re really excited to get it on its feet with Clubbed Thumb, who produced the very first reading of the play back in 2006.

Summerworks is an annual festival of new plays by living American writers. Go see the other two shoes in the festival, too: Five Genocides by Samuel D. Hunter and The Small by Anne Washburn.