KATHERINE BOORSTEIN THEATRICAL
KATHERINE BOORSTEIN THEATRICAL
KATHERINE BOORSTEIN THEATRICAL
Playwright
Featured Plays
Feedback
90min, 1F 1M
A modest college freshman and a reclusiveupperclassman form an unlikely creative partnership. When their relationship begins to step over the line between literary and physical intimacy, they must cope with the fallout of their shared ignorance about consent. Feedback reckons withcoming-of-age, creativity, and what we learn (and don’t learn) about sex growing up in America.
- Production at Rogue Theater Festival at Theatre Row (2023)
- Reading at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club: New York, NY (2023)
- Second Round finalist, Austin Film Festival (AFF) Stage Play Category: Austin, TX (2023)
- Developed with Don’t Tell Amy Productions Draft One Festival: New York, NY (2022)
The Light Fell
Upcoming - Full-Length
When a beloved pastor in the Mojave Desert passesaway, his congregation must figure out how to keep their church together – while also reckoning with the ways it needs to change. The Light Fell asks: How do we move together through grief? How can an institution outlive its founders? What does it take to create equity in a fractured community?
- Developed with La MaMa Umbria International: Umbria, Italy (June 2022)
- Developed with Dramatic Question Theatre’s PlayTime Fellowship: New York, NY (Oct 2022)
Kind of a B*tch
60min, 1F
A solo romp through the minds of a wicked queen, a judgy PTO mom, your backstabbing coworker, and other villains, from an incorrigbly polite actress who can't stop being cast, as, well... a b*tch.
- Produced at Brown University: Providence, RI (2016)
Wishing Snow for Mercury
10min, 4Any
Convinced their life-sustaining systems are offline, the tight-knit crew of an extra-planetary base turn against one another.
- Published by Samuel French, Inc. On Stage Press (Dramafest 2010 Anthology)
- Produced at Stagedoor Manor: Loch Sheldrake, NY (2010)
- Produced at Mt. Zion High School: Mt. Zion, IL (2011)
- Columbia College Young Authors Award in Playwriting – Honorable Mention (2011)
Semi-Sweet
10min, 1F, 1Any
A woman reckons with the grand tragedy of receiving no chocolates on Valentine's Day. Two lovers form an unexpected bond over their recent divorces.
I'm Calling on Behalf of my Client
20min, 2F, 3M
When a talent agency for visual artists is accused of foul play, a go-getter talent agent is forced to confront her divided loyalties. I’m Calling on Behalf of My Client is a one-act dramedy about purpose in careers, queerness in the workplace, and the messy business of money in art.
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