Thanks to Emily Brauer Rogers and her persistence, she submitted the two of us (as Project La Femme) for a fellowship with the Orchard Project in NY and their summer program The Liveness Lab.
The 6 week residency consists of panels, breakout groups and roundtable discussion revolving around making theater in the time of a pandemic. The Liveness Lab seeks to investigate what "liveness" is and how we address it in this new field of digital theater.
International Women's Day, March 8th, 2020 came a lot sooner than I was prepared for. Even though back in September 2019, Project La Femme was approached by STAGESTheatre to return for the 3rd year of our IWD show "Women Get Loud". So, I really should have been better organized but I was just coming off the Project La Femme Playwright's Festival, in the middle of War of the Worlds rehearsal and actively participating in shaping the Orange County Theatre Guild'...
I've had an opportunity to create some real life art installations and I've loved it!
I can thank my theater design friends for my limited education of visual art but it's been cool to get to work on these display windows for the last year or so.
The Brea Gallery is a contemproray art space and after many years of just posters in the window, we came to the decision to use the window as an extension of the title wall and the exhibit, itself.
Review of War of the Worlds by Scott Keister of The Orange Curtain Review
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Perhaps the most notorious radio broadcast of all time, The Mercury Theater’s 1938 adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds,” directed by and starring Orson Welles and written by Howard Koch, is as much known for the success of its artistic achievements as it is for the supposed nationwide panic it caused, all greatly exaggerated by the newsprint media anxious to...
Today I closed my most recent production War of the Worlds at Curtis Theater. To be honest, this show was way out of my comfort zone and I can't totally say that I really embraced the unknown of it. And it was a real challenge figuring out how to stage a story that was written for a different medium.
The script we used was the actual Orson Welles transcript of the 1938 radio broadcast. Welles wanted to do a adaptation of the HG Wells novel but insisted that How...
Years ago in grad school, I got a notion in my head that I wanted to do a stage adaptation of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. I remember reading the short story in high school and then tracking down a film version of the piece. I loved how it spoke to mental health and specifically the bias developed by doctors when it came to diagnosing and treating "female disorders".
The Voice of OC writes a piece about the OC-Centic New Play Festival. As a director in this year's festival, writer Eric Marchese interview's Katie about the experience.
O.C. Playwrights to be Showcased in an Upcoming New Play Festival of ‘Uncommon’ One-Act Tales
Anyone connected with theater will tell you that with any show, it all starts with the writing. That places an especially high premium on organizations dedicated to encou...
It's the 10 year anniversary of this event that I feel like I have to share.
When the Hunger Artist's Theater Co applied for the rights to Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", they were granted with the condition that we couldn't have any written reviews of the production or do any print marketing. Why these would be the conditions for doing the show, we were never told. Being in Orange County, there was always a strange relationship with the...
