Kathryn de la Rosa

Kathryn de la Rosa

Kathryn de la Rosa (they/she) is a Filipinx dramaturg, playwright, and former college newspaper astrologer born at sunrise in Kentucky during a full moon. They are in the Clusterf**k Write Vol. 2 working group at The COOP and an Ashland New Plays Festival New Voices Emerging Playwright. Kathryn was a finalist for the 2021 Artists at Play & APAFT Emerging Playwright Commission, and a 2019–20 dramaturgy...
Kathryn de la Rosa (they/she) is a Filipinx dramaturg, playwright, and former college newspaper astrologer born at sunrise in Kentucky during a full moon. They are in the Clusterf**k Write Vol. 2 working group at The COOP and an Ashland New Plays Festival New Voices Emerging Playwright. Kathryn was a finalist for the 2021 Artists at Play & APAFT Emerging Playwright Commission, and a 2019–20 dramaturgy & literary management apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville. MA (expected '23): United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, BA: Indiana University.

Plays

  • NON SO PIÙ COSA SON by Kathryn de la Rosa
    Recommendations: 1
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    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic + 3 more
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    Keyword: gender dysphoria, Asian American + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, period, political
    Keyword: gender dysphoria, Asian American, the philippines, Filipino American, Korea, Koryo-saram, Japanese imperialism, Stalinism, opera, play with music
    NON SO PIÙ is a dialectical chamber play with music weaving together the church basement voice lessons of 17-year-old soprano Maria with the imagined lives of the Philippines’ first opera singer and a Soviet-Korean poet in exile. On diaspora, dysphoria, and the making of cultural capital. Briefly known as "untitled fuck Rivers Cuomo play."
  • Holy Virgins by Kathryn de la Rosa
    Recommendations: 7
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    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: Kentucky, Filipino American + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, faith-based, political
    Keyword: Kentucky, Filipino American, teenagers, mysticism, Asian American, Catholic, confirmation, imperialism, leftist, 2012 presidential election
    western kentucky, 2012. sam, marina and jesse are about to be confirmed catholics, licensed drivers, and suspended from immaculate conception high school for a satanic prank or the vatican decree against communism, depending on who you ask. a sour-sweet dark comedy about queer girlhood, forgiving your mom, and what to believe.
  • The Best Day by Kathryn de la Rosa
    Recommendations: 1
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    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Taylor Swift, mothers and daughters + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: Taylor Swift, mothers and daughters, intergenerational, Asian American, Filipino American, Tagalog, pop music, Swiftie, Louisville, Kentucky
    a filipino mom + her daughter's college orientation + the 1989 world tour = an unwelcome, expensive surprise.
  • pasyon play part 1 by Kathryn de la Rosa
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    11–20
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    Genre: drama, faith-based + 3 more
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    Keyword: the philippines, Kapampangan + 8 more
    Genre: drama, faith-based, pageant, period, political
    Keyword: the philippines, Kapampangan, crucifixion, Catholicism, filipino, imperialism, Christian socialism, liberation theology, metatheatrical, Sarah Ruhl
    (in progress; draft published 2021.04.09)

    part 1 of 3, 1970: a family stages Christ's death in the aftermath of the First Quarter Storm, with steel nails and real blood.