Kitty Dubin

Kitty Dubin is an award-winning playwright whose work been performed in theaters across the country. RIGHTS OF PASSAGE was her sixth world premiere and seventh production at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre where she was Playwright-in-Residence. Other productions at the JET include THE BLANK PAGE, COMING OF AGE, THE DAY WE MET, CHANGE OF LIFE, DANCE LIKE NO ONE’S WATCHING, and THE LAST RESORT. Kitty has also received productions at the Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, MI, the BoarsHead Theatre in Lansing, MI. and the Live Oak Theatre in Austin, Texas. Her one act plays have been performed in numerous festivals and competitions including The American Globe Festival, Heartlande Theatre’s Play-by-Play Marathon, Tipping Point’s Sandbox Festival, Boxfest Detroit, The Vitality Festival, and the Samuel...

Kitty Dubin is an award-winning playwright whose work been performed in theaters across the country. RIGHTS OF PASSAGE was her sixth world premiere and seventh production at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre where she was Playwright-in-Residence. Other productions at the JET include THE BLANK PAGE, COMING OF AGE, THE DAY WE MET, CHANGE OF LIFE, DANCE LIKE NO ONE’S WATCHING, and THE LAST RESORT. Kitty has also received productions at the Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, MI, the BoarsHead Theatre in Lansing, MI. and the Live Oak Theatre in Austin, Texas. Her one act plays have been performed in numerous festivals and competitions including The American Globe Festival, Heartlande Theatre’s Play-by-Play Marathon, Tipping Point’s Sandbox Festival, Boxfest Detroit, The Vitality Festival, and the Samuel French Play Competition. She was awarded two individual artist grants from the Michigan Council for the Arts as well as a Jewish Woman in the Arts Award. In addition, she has been a Lecturer for the past twenty-eight years at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan where she teaches classes in beginning and advanced playwriting and has mentored many young playwrights. She is a long-standing member of the Dramatist Guild and has had two articles published in their monthly magazine, THE DRAMATIST. Her most recent play, THE MARRIAGE SPECTRUM, received a virtual reading sponsored by Oakland University's School of Music, Theatre and Dance and OU Cares.

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Scripts

The Marriage Spectrum

by Kitty Dubin

Cast Size
4
Genre
drama

Mike and Beth Rosen are thrilled when they find out Beth is pregnant but as the years go by, they begin to realize Andy isn't like other kids his age. When he's six, a doctor confirms their fears. The play examines the conflicts that arise over the years as Beth and Mike strongly differ in which each thinks is " best for Andy."

Mike and Beth Rosen are thrilled when they find out Beth is pregnant but as the years go by, they begin to realize Andy isn't like other kids his age. When he's six, a doctor confirms their fears. The play examines the conflicts that arise over the years as Beth and Mike strongly differ in which each thinks is " best for Andy."

Rights of Passage

by Kitty Dubin

2
Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
drama

Equal parts comedy and drama, RIGHTS OF PASSAGE is a grouping of five short plays that explore the defining moments in the journey of life, from bris (birth) to shiva (death). The play runs 85 minutes without intermission.

Equal parts comedy and drama, RIGHTS OF PASSAGE is a grouping of five short plays that explore the defining moments in the journey of life, from bris (birth) to shiva (death). The play runs 85 minutes without intermission.

The Blank Page

by Kitty Dubin

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
drama

With the deadline for her second novel looming, creative writing professor is mired in self-doubt while work, family, and a gifted new student threaten to drag her under. As she struggles to finish the novel, conflicts erupt with her rabbi husband, her best friend, and her oh-so-talented student. THE BLANK PAGE explores the choices we make in creating our own stories with wit, compassion, and razor sharp...

With the deadline for her second novel looming, creative writing professor is mired in self-doubt while work, family, and a gifted new student threaten to drag her under. As she struggles to finish the novel, conflicts erupt with her rabbi husband, her best friend, and her oh-so-talented student. THE BLANK PAGE explores the choices we make in creating our own stories with wit, compassion, and razor sharp dialogue.

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IT'S MY PARTY

by Kitty Dubin

3
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama

Dedicated parents of an autistic teen strongly disagree when their son wants to cancel his bar mitzvah party.

Dedicated parents of an autistic teen strongly disagree when their son wants to cancel his bar mitzvah party.

COMING OF AGE

by Kitty Dubin

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
drama

Sarah and Holly, both approaching sixty and best friends since college, spend the same week together with their spouses every summer at a cottage on Lake Michigan. For the first time in many years, Holly, recently widowed, arrives alone and inconsolable. Totally dependent on her husband for thirty years, she now feels lost and alone. Sarah and her husband, Ben, are also struggling with a number of issues: facing...

Sarah and Holly, both approaching sixty and best friends since college, spend the same week together with their spouses every summer at a cottage on Lake Michigan. For the first time in many years, Holly, recently widowed, arrives alone and inconsolable. Totally dependent on her husband for thirty years, she now feels lost and alone. Sarah and her husband, Ben, are also struggling with a number of issues: facing an empty nest, the loss of their parents, the prospect of retirement, and the deterioration of their own marriage. Over the course of three summers, we follow these characters as the confront the realities of aging.

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