Kate Mickere

Kate Mickere is a playwright and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. Her play, NURSE CADDEN, was the inaugural winner of the A is For Playwriting Contest and received a virtual reading that starred Ann Dowd. NURSE CADDEN is published by Next Stage Press. Kate is currently developing a new play, THE CHRISTMAS COVEN, with Moving Arts Theatre in Los Angeles and her play VAMPIRE PANIC! was a selection for the 2024 Great Plains Theatre Conference. She is the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Student Screenwriting Award and The Steven Bochco Fellowship. MFA: Carnegie Mellon University

Kate Mickere is a playwright and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. Her play, NURSE CADDEN, was the inaugural winner of the A is For Playwriting Contest and received a virtual reading that starred Ann Dowd. NURSE CADDEN is published by Next Stage Press. Kate is currently developing a new play, THE CHRISTMAS COVEN, with Moving Arts Theatre in Los Angeles and her play VAMPIRE PANIC! was a selection for the 2024 Great Plains Theatre Conference. She is the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Student Screenwriting Award and The Steven Bochco Fellowship. MFA: Carnegie Mellon University

Scripts

A Christmas Coven

by Kate Mickere

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
fantasy,
horror

FULL LENGTH: When Becca comes home to Burbank for Christmas to care for her ailing mom, she discovers that her soccer mom best friends have started a coven. If she joins them, she could finally have the life of her dreams… but is wild success worth the destructive demon that comes with it? 4 W

FULL LENGTH: When Becca comes home to Burbank for Christmas to care for her ailing mom, she discovers that her soccer mom best friends have started a coven. If she joins them, she could finally have the life of her dreams… but is wild success worth the destructive demon that comes with it? 4 W

Vampire Panic!

by Kate Mickere

4
Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
docudrama/historic,
period

FULL LENGTH: Inspired by true events, “Vampire Panic!” is set in 1890’s New England, when people believed that vampires were causing a tuberculosis outbreak. The play follows Lucy Greene, a woman who is trying to bring sanity back to her small town while clashing against a zealous preacher woman, an opportunistic doctor and her aspiring vampire hunter niece. Vampire Panic! reminds us that medical misinformation...

FULL LENGTH: Inspired by true events, “Vampire Panic!” is set in 1890’s New England, when people believed that vampires were causing a tuberculosis outbreak. The play follows Lucy Greene, a woman who is trying to bring sanity back to her small town while clashing against a zealous preacher woman, an opportunistic doctor and her aspiring vampire hunter niece. Vampire Panic! reminds us that medical misinformation, conspiracy theories and hysteria have been plaguing society long before the Covid era.

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Nurse Cadden

by Kate Mickere

2
Cast Size
5—6
Genre
dark comedy,
docudrama/historic,
period,
political

FULL LENGTH: Nurse Cadden is a backstreet abortionist who profits off the secrets of Dublin’s most powerful men. When the body of pregnant Helen O’Reilly is found dumped outside of Mamie’s flat, the infamous nurse is sentenced to hang. Can a Divine intervention save Nurse Cadden’s soul before it’s too late? Nurse Cadden is available for purchase and licensing via Next Stage Press.

FULL LENGTH: Nurse Cadden is a backstreet abortionist who profits off the secrets of Dublin’s most powerful men. When the body of pregnant Helen O’Reilly is found dumped outside of Mamie’s flat, the infamous nurse is sentenced to hang. Can a Divine intervention save Nurse Cadden’s soul before it’s too late? Nurse Cadden is available for purchase and licensing via Next Stage Press.

A Banshee Killed My Boyfriend

by Kate Mickere

1
Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
romantic comedy

FULL LENGTH Fiona and Gemma are best friends and amateur witches who are tired of getting screwed over by mortal men. While trying to conjure up the perfect boyfriend, the girls unwittingly screw up the entire metaphysical world, stranding banshees, seal women, and other magical (and pissed off) beings on Earth.

FULL LENGTH Fiona and Gemma are best friends and amateur witches who are tired of getting screwed over by mortal men. While trying to conjure up the perfect boyfriend, the girls unwittingly screw up the entire metaphysical world, stranding banshees, seal women, and other magical (and pissed off) beings on Earth.

Mod Party

by Kate Mickere

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
fantasy,
romantic comedy

TEN MINUTE: What would you do if David Bowie told you that the love of your life was a loser?

TEN MINUTE: What would you do if David Bowie told you that the love of your life was a loser?

The Incident

by Kate Mickere

1
Cast Size
2—5
Genre
comedy,
docudrama/historic,
fantasy,
period

TEN MINUTE While touring the gardens of Versailles, two Edwardian school-teachers encounter a time slip and find themselves face to face with Marie Antoinette. Now that they're safely back home in 1901, they must make a hard decision. Do they keep quiet and preserve their reputation, or do they risk their careers and tell the world their story?

TEN MINUTE While touring the gardens of Versailles, two Edwardian school-teachers encounter a time slip and find themselves face to face with Marie Antoinette. Now that they're safely back home in 1901, they must make a hard decision. Do they keep quiet and preserve their reputation, or do they risk their careers and tell the world their story?