Kati Frazier

Kati Frazier (they/he/she) is a St. Louis-based playwright, dramaturg, and theater administrator. Born and raised in North Carolina, Kati is also a former Brooklynite with theatrical connections in the south, the northeast, and the Midwest. Their work is informed by lived queer experience and a queer historical lens. They explore contemporary issues using magical realism, non-linear timelines, liminal spaces, and unconventional structures.

Their plays include: 'Radio Eulogy,' 'Untitled Calamity Jane Play,' 'Patronage,' 'a sex thing (or, a bunch of liberals get uptight about the sociopolitical implications of their desires),' 'Virtue Of Fools,' 'The Last Year,' '15 Feet: A Story Told From A Distance,' and 'The Couch.' Their work has been seen across the U.S. (and once across the pond!) at...

Kati Frazier (they/he/she) is a St. Louis-based playwright, dramaturg, and theater administrator. Born and raised in North Carolina, Kati is also a former Brooklynite with theatrical connections in the south, the northeast, and the Midwest. Their work is informed by lived queer experience and a queer historical lens. They explore contemporary issues using magical realism, non-linear timelines, liminal spaces, and unconventional structures.

Their plays include: 'Radio Eulogy,' 'Untitled Calamity Jane Play,' 'Patronage,' 'a sex thing (or, a bunch of liberals get uptight about the sociopolitical implications of their desires),' 'Virtue Of Fools,' 'The Last Year,' '15 Feet: A Story Told From A Distance,' and 'The Couch.' Their work has been seen across the U.S. (and once across the pond!) at 14th Street Y, Rising Sun Performance Company, Astoria Performing Arts Center, Quantum Egg Theatre, Oracle Performing Arts, City Arts, Greensboro Fringe Festival, The Players Theatre, Brooklyn's The Brick, Random Access Theater, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Carroll College, and Bradley University.

Their full length Untitled Calamity Jane Play was published by Next Stage Press and short plays 'Girlfight' and 'My Emotions Are Too Big For This Room' were published by Smith & Krauss. Kati was a Stella Adler Harold Clurman Playwrights Division finalist, a 2025 Thomas Barbour Award finalist, a 2025 Ojai Playwrights Conference semi-finalist, and is a resident playwright with Rising Sun Performance Company. Kati was recently admitted to Augsburg University’s MFA Creative Writing program.

As an administrator, house manager, and theatrical jack-of-most-trades Kati has worked for The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Signature Theatre (New York), Westside Theatre, All For One Theater, Gateway Playhouse, and Florida Studio Theatre, among others.

Scripts

Wild Days

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

Bella's wild days of burlesque are behind her, until her new partner Sam encourages her to break out the nipple tassles for a gig in Toronto. But the politics of their different bodies turns the experience into a test of who they will allow each other to be.

Bella's wild days of burlesque are behind her, until her new partner Sam encourages her to break out the nipple tassles for a gig in Toronto. But the politics of their different bodies turns the experience into a test of who they will allow each other to be.

Radio Eulogy

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

FM Radio DJ and shitty dad, Greg, is dead before the play begins. Radio Eulogy is a dark comedy that charts the grief (and relief) of his disjointed family. Greg’s father, the shitty dad who raised another shitty dad, rewrites history and struggles to keep his family under his thumb. Greg’s kid is making performance art, recycling their trauma over and over. His ex-wife is still buried in the past, and...

FM Radio DJ and shitty dad, Greg, is dead before the play begins. Radio Eulogy is a dark comedy that charts the grief (and relief) of his disjointed family. Greg’s father, the shitty dad who raised another shitty dad, rewrites history and struggles to keep his family under his thumb. Greg’s kid is making performance art, recycling their trauma over and over. His ex-wife is still buried in the past, and fighting her way through memories of abuse. No family member knows the whole story, but through their secrets and contradictions, the man behind the voice on the radio comes into focus and the mystery behind his death unfolds.
But what do you do with the memory of an abuser? How do you tell the story of your trauma when you don’t get to triumph in the end? When closure becomes unattainable, how do you close the book on your pain?
Radio Eulogy grapples with what our fathers owe us, what we owe them, and the insurmountable distance in between.

Untitled Calamity Jane Play

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

A rough and tumble cowgirl, a prostitute with a heart of gold, a generous motherly woman of the west, a hardened criminal who cared for no one. Calamity Jane is all of these things and none of them in this non-linear exploration of the contradictory stories of the life of Calamity Jane. When the truth of a woman is unknowable, does the difference between reality and what we want her to be really matter?

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A rough and tumble cowgirl, a prostitute with a heart of gold, a generous motherly woman of the west, a hardened criminal who cared for no one. Calamity Jane is all of these things and none of them in this non-linear exploration of the contradictory stories of the life of Calamity Jane. When the truth of a woman is unknowable, does the difference between reality and what we want her to be really matter?

The script lends itself to color conscious casting, a fast and loose interpretation of gender, and lots of double-casting, hence the very ambiguous info in the character listing. Double-casting info provided is a suggestion.

"Its treatment of the subject matter is clever, thoughtful, and raucously entertaining. The humor is smart and sassy, poking fun at history itself as it finds a million holes, inaccuracies, and problems in the record of Calamity Jane’s life." --StageBuddy, Erin Kahn

Going In

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

A one act play about gender, love, bodies, and some very unrealistic scientific equipment.

A one act play about gender, love, bodies, and some very unrealistic scientific equipment.

Patronage

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

A three-character, one-violin fairy tale about our relationship with the written word, sexuality, and how we learn to love each other properly.

A three-character, one-violin fairy tale about our relationship with the written word, sexuality, and how we learn to love each other properly.

My Emotions Are Too Big For This Room

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

Peggy's emotions are big. Dangerously big.

*While not originally written as a Zoom play (it pre-dates the pandemic) I am dying to see this play performed virtually. I think it would be an excellent fit.

Peggy's emotions are big. Dangerously big.

*While not originally written as a Zoom play (it pre-dates the pandemic) I am dying to see this play performed virtually. I think it would be an excellent fit.

a sex thing (or, a bunch of liberals getting uptight about the sociopolitical implications of their desires)

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

David and Ann are trying to resuscitate their relationship; Stevie and Alice are just getting started. Both couples find themselves at a f*cking crossroads (or rather, a crossroads about f*cking), and asking some new questions.

How can you turn someone on when they’re trying super hard not to objectify you?Why are some sexy ideas so unsexy in real life? Are wooden butt plugs safe? and why is it so hard to ask...

David and Ann are trying to resuscitate their relationship; Stevie and Alice are just getting started. Both couples find themselves at a f*cking crossroads (or rather, a crossroads about f*cking), and asking some new questions.

How can you turn someone on when they’re trying super hard not to objectify you?Why are some sexy ideas so unsexy in real life? Are wooden butt plugs safe? and why is it so hard to ask for what we want?

While exploring kinks, consent, identity, and desire, they struggle with what to do when what you want isn’t what turns you on and what turns you on isn’t what you want.

Setting Things on Fire is a Viable Strategy

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

In this short dark comedy, Penny sits down with her legal team to discuss her options: take a settlement and sign an NDA, or commit arson. After all, she's more likely to get away with arson than she is to win in court against her rapist.

content warning: non-graphic references to rape, assault, and murder

In this short dark comedy, Penny sits down with her legal team to discuss her options: take a settlement and sign an NDA, or commit arson. After all, she's more likely to get away with arson than she is to win in court against her rapist.

content warning: non-graphic references to rape, assault, and murder

Summer Apart

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

A play in letters, looking back on Summer in the South in 2001 for two queer kids, this play explores the limits of friendship, the perils of learning who you are, and the irrepressible awkwardness of youth.

A play in letters, looking back on Summer in the South in 2001 for two queer kids, this play explores the limits of friendship, the perils of learning who you are, and the irrepressible awkwardness of youth.

Last Blockbuster

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

We may be living in a capitalist dystopia, but Rob's Blockbuster franchise is a slice of 90's video-store nostalgia with an underpaid staff of sarcastic teens and 20-somethings fighting to keep the video store alive . . . but what for?

We may be living in a capitalist dystopia, but Rob's Blockbuster franchise is a slice of 90's video-store nostalgia with an underpaid staff of sarcastic teens and 20-somethings fighting to keep the video store alive . . . but what for?

A Nightmare on Zoom Street

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

Meeting over Zoom during the pandemic, the support group for Freddy Kreuger Dream sufferers is down to only two surviving members! Adrian and Eric struggle to stay awake as they battle Freddy--and time!-- to survive.

*Written for Rising Sun Performance Company's HallowStream Festival

Meeting over Zoom during the pandemic, the support group for Freddy Kreuger Dream sufferers is down to only two surviving members! Adrian and Eric struggle to stay awake as they battle Freddy--and time!-- to survive.

*Written for Rising Sun Performance Company's HallowStream Festival

Estimated Wait

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

Megan and Sam reach a crossroads in their relationship while sitting through the long lines that make up New York life in this brief romantic comedy.

Megan and Sam reach a crossroads in their relationship while sitting through the long lines that make up New York life in this brief romantic comedy.

15 Feet: A Story Told From A Distance

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

Celia, daughter of conservative anti-abortion protesters, and Diane, a women’s clinic nurse, tell the story of how they fell for — and then left — each other.

Celia, daughter of conservative anti-abortion protesters, and Diane, a women’s clinic nurse, tell the story of how they fell for — and then left — each other.

The Couch

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

Letters flutter down from the sky, cell phones fly in swarms, and couches move on their own in this comedy about love, family, couches, and the lack thereof.

Letters flutter down from the sky, cell phones fly in swarms, and couches move on their own in this comedy about love, family, couches, and the lack thereof.

Hedges

by Kati Frazier

Synopsis

Emily and Cass's young love faces real world problems of class as the teens sneak off to the woods

Emily and Cass's young love faces real world problems of class as the teens sneak off to the woods