Kati Frazier

Kati Frazier

Kati Frazier is a playwright, dramaturg, and theater administrator from North Carolina, now based in New York City. They have a deep artistic interest in magical realism, non-linear timelines, liminal spaces, and the queering of structure.

Their plays include: 'Untitled Calamity Jane Play,' 'Patronage,' 'a sex thing (or, a bunch of liberals get uptight about the...
Kati Frazier is a playwright, dramaturg, and theater administrator from North Carolina, now based in New York City. They have a deep artistic interest in magical realism, non-linear timelines, liminal spaces, and the queering of structure.

Their plays include: '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 at 14th Street Y, Rising Sun Performance Company, Astoria Performing Arts Center, City Arts, Greensboro Fringe Festival, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, The Players Theatre, Brooklyn's The Brick, and Random Access Theater. Their short plays 'Girlfight' and 'My Emotions Are Too Big For This Room' were published by Smith & Krauss.

Plays

  • Radio Eulogy
    **Draft - looking for development opportunities **

    Greg's dead. This is the play about how the people who loved him learn to live with that death.
    Wait no.
    Greg was a shit dad. But that's ok, because now Greg's dead. This play is definitely not about him. If anything it's about how it isn't about him.
    Yeah . . . that sounds right.
    No. Stop....
    **Draft - looking for development opportunities **

    Greg's dead. This is the play about how the people who loved him learn to live with that death.
    Wait no.
    Greg was a shit dad. But that's ok, because now Greg's dead. This play is definitely not about him. If anything it's about how it isn't about him.
    Yeah . . . that sounds right.
    No. Stop. Try again.
    Greg's dead. He may or may not have been a good person. But he was definitely at least a person. There were people he was supposed to love, to take care of. They're still alive.
    This is their play.
  • Untitled Calamity Jane Play
    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?...
    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
    A one act play about gender, love, bodies, and some very unrealistic scientific equipment.
    NEW DRAFT (previous this was a 10 minute play and it has been expanded)
  • Patronage
    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
    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)
    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...
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Emily and Cass's young love faces real world problems of class as the teens sneak off to the woods