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kate brennan

plays & musicals

All of Kate's work provides more and more meaningful roles for women. She writes plays and musicals on her own and as half of Brennan & White with playwright David Lee White.

She is a three-time O’Neill semifinalist, a Princess Grace Finalist, a Judith Royer Finalist, a Jane Chambers Finalist, a B Street Theatre Comedy Festival Finalist & a Finalist for the Jonathan Larson Grant.

All of her work is available for licensing.
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4F, 1 M Discouraged by her recent futile apartment search and the equally futile state of the world, Jaycee finds solace in the clean lines and pre-fab layouts at DUKTIG, her local Swedish furniture store. So she moves in. When others follow her lead, will she be discovered or start a revolution? A heart-warming and unconventional take on where we live, and the parts of ourselves we donate to make it home.	3F, 1M Emma James is a mother of two young children who is trying to reenter the workforce. But to land the new opportunity she seeks, she may have to make a deal with the devil, or herself, or possibly both. But what could go wrong when she finally gets everything she ever wanted? Groundhogs Day meets Faust in this new play about the unending, ever-illusive search for work/life balance.	2F Sol is trying to clean up the house. Again. But when her new neighbor breaks into her living room with a broadsword announcing that her family has been taken, she may just have to quest with a viking queen to recover what she has lost. Tully meets Don Quixote in this tale of postpartum peri-menopausal survival in which two women go to extremes to get back what they didn't even know they were searching for.
5W Daisy Jones & the Six meets Waiting for Guffman in this kaleidoscopic retrospective of a new mom who accidentally starts a cult. #notacult is a poignant portrait of a woman in crisis on a comedic journey to reinvent herself, as well as a heartwarming tale of the bizarre lengths women will travel to save each other.	12F, with David Lee White What do A Christmas Carol, The Wizard of Oz and Dracula have in common? Jennifer Bender is about to find out. This all-female farce with dynamic roles for artists ages 13 to 70 reminds us that when the world drains you of lifeblood, it’s never too late to change— and perhaps who you were meant to be was right there all along.	12+ ANY In a world of superhuman strength, flying and time travel, it’s hard not to feel inadequate when all you can do is make grass grow 5% faster. The School for the Marginally Magical helps the…less amazing students reach their potential, whatever it may be. HARRY POTTER meets THE OWL HOUSE in this offbeat genderless take on how growing up in the margins doesn’t mean you can’t become something extraordinary.
1-10W Lenora’s only friend is her virtual personal assistant device, Alyssa. But when Lenora gets locked in her Chelsea apartment on Christmas Eve and technology glitches, Lenora realizes she is not alone. Alternating between her one-bedroom apartment and a TED Talk, LENORA puts a technological spin on the devices we use to connect and the loneliness that comes from being truly disconnected. A modern Christmas Carol that can be performed by one actress or 10. Bah Humbug. Or Merry Christmas.	1-16 W A stream of consciousness wonderland blurring the lines between thought and reality. Touching on evolution, memory, childbirth, technology, death and Atlantic City, this poetic menagerie unleashes the thoughts that keep us spinning and the rage that keeps us going. It’s the course you didn’t expect to take for the life you didn’t expect to live.	3W It's hard to be a woman in the 1600s; It's hard to be a woman in the 1950s. They didn't mean to conjure the dark arts, tamper with the space-time continuum, and bury their cardboard cutout husbands in the front yard. It just kinda....happened. Nightb*tch meets The Crucible in an absurd tale about finding your people, at any age. Cause, man, hormones are a witch. In development.
8+ any A brand new take on the whimsical classic, with five Alices at the epicenter. An exploration of boredom and presence, vulnerability and wonder: Welcome down the real rabbit hole. In development.	2 W, 1M Three middle-aged friends contemplate meaning and meaninglessness in this teenage daydream. A complete reimagining of Chekhov's classic. In development.

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