Kathryn Graf

Kathryn Graf

Plays: THE 405, Inkubator Development and Reading, Skylight Theatre, Los Angeles. Directed by Steven Robman. WHO’S AFRAID OF DAVID HARE?, (Finalist, 2015 Henley Rose Playwrights’ Competition.) Classics Fest Reading and Development at Antaeus Theatre, Los Angeles. Directed by Steven Robman. THE SNAKE CAN, Produced, Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles. Directed by Steven Robman. Starring Jane Kaczmarek and Gregory...
Plays: THE 405, Inkubator Development and Reading, Skylight Theatre, Los Angeles. Directed by Steven Robman. WHO’S AFRAID OF DAVID HARE?, (Finalist, 2015 Henley Rose Playwrights’ Competition.) Classics Fest Reading and Development at Antaeus Theatre, Los Angeles. Directed by Steven Robman. THE SNAKE CAN, Produced, Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles. Directed by Steven Robman. Starring Jane Kaczmarek and Gregory Harrison (L.A. Weekly Nom, Best Playwriting. LA Times Critic’s Choice, LA Weekly Pick of the Week). HERMETICALLY SEALED, Produced, Skylight Theatre, Los Angeles (L.A. Times, Among Year’s Best Plays. Backstage Garland Award. Noms: LA Weekly, LADCC. LA Times Critics’ Choice). SURVIVING DAVID, Produced, 2100 Sq. Ft., Los Angeles. Produced, NYC Fringe (Outstanding Solo Show, NYC Fringe). POOR PRETTY BIRDS, Produced, Philipstown Depot Theatre, NY. THE STIFF, Readings: Tri-State Actors’ Theatre, N.J., Ensemble Studio Theatre L.A. LAFPI Swan Day. (Finalist, Tennessee Williams One-Act Competition) Books:
ALWAYS MY DAD (Gold Medal Mom’s Choice Award). Kathryn has been writing plays for twelve years. Before writing, Ms. Graf worked as an actress. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild of America.

Plays

  • Who's Afraid of David Hare? by Kathryn Graf
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, drama
    Genre: comedy, drama
    A Broadway play causes dissension in the lives of four very different
    New Yorkers when they discover, with some horror, that the play
    parallels their own lives. Each is forced to take personal inventory of
    their own ethics and principles while trying to overlook the obvious
    corruption of the other three. Using probing humor, playwright
    Kathryn Graf asks important, pertinent...
    A Broadway play causes dissension in the lives of four very different
    New Yorkers when they discover, with some horror, that the play
    parallels their own lives. Each is forced to take personal inventory of
    their own ethics and principles while trying to overlook the obvious
    corruption of the other three. Using probing humor, playwright
    Kathryn Graf asks important, pertinent questions about art, its
    influence, and an artist’s responsibility.
  • Surviving David by Kathryn Graf
    Cast: 
    1
    ·
    Genre: comedy, drama
    ·
    Keyword: female, true story
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: female, true story
    A true story: What happens when your husband dies suddenly and you can't quite get the widow thing right? A story of collapse, renewal and ultimately, love.

    An autobiographical story of a happily married woman and her struggle to cope after her husband drops dead. Hurling through an altered life of single-parenting two small children, handling rocky finances and battling emotions that...
    A true story: What happens when your husband dies suddenly and you can't quite get the widow thing right? A story of collapse, renewal and ultimately, love.

    An autobiographical story of a happily married woman and her struggle to cope after her husband drops dead. Hurling through an altered life of single-parenting two small children, handling rocky finances and battling emotions that blindside her, this young widow is forced to take inventory of her new identity and is not terribly impressed. Raw, funny and painfully honest, Surviving David is an unabashed look at grief from the point of view of a woman in her sexual prime desperately trying to do the right thing.


  • The Stiff by Kathryn Graf
    Cast: 
    4–5
    ·
    Genre: dark comedy
    Genre: dark comedy
    As Samantha’s body lies stiff and dying, her soul and wit take a ride, observing the players in her life and discovering she’s not the only one stuck. Told with audacious humor and dramatic depth, The Stiff is a play about hidden desires and the lengths some of us will go to fulfill them.
  • Poor Pretty Birds by Kathryn Graf
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: middle age
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: middle age
    Two people, uprooted and displaced, connected only by a changing neighborhood, are forced to concede their hopes and misconceptions of each other.
  • Hermetically Sealed by Kathryn Graf
    Cast: 
    5
    ·
    Genre: drama
    ·
    Keyword: family
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: family
    The May family has its daily routine; the oldest boy comes home from partying at dawn, the same time his mother, Tessie, begins her work baking cakes. At noon, Tessie wakes her younger son, Conor, and throughout the afternoon, Tessie bakes cakes and Conor plays video games. This day-to-day works just fine, helping them maintain a private, isolated world where they can keep their secret carefully concealed and...
    The May family has its daily routine; the oldest boy comes home from partying at dawn, the same time his mother, Tessie, begins her work baking cakes. At noon, Tessie wakes her younger son, Conor, and throughout the afternoon, Tessie bakes cakes and Conor plays video games. This day-to-day works just fine, helping them maintain a private, isolated world where they can keep their secret carefully concealed and almost evade their unspeakable pain. This evening, however, when Tessie’s boss picks up the cakes, the May’s carefully balanced habitat may be undone. Told with audacious humor and dramatic depth, Hermetically Sealed is a play about the pain of love and how each of us chooses to cope with loss. The play challenges generational prejudices and takes to task our society's 'lite' culture and its increasing phobia with uncomfortable human feelings.
  • The Snake Can by Kathryn Graf
    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: middle age
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: middle age
    The Snake Can is an exploration of relationships in middle age.
    Focusing on trying to understand the choices and challenges of what some people refer to as the ‘age of caution,’ The Snake Can weaves the story of a group of people who challenge themselves to find love and personal fulfillment in the middle years of life, wondering all the while how they managed to get this old and still not know anything...
    The Snake Can is an exploration of relationships in middle age.
    Focusing on trying to understand the choices and challenges of what some people refer to as the ‘age of caution,’ The Snake Can weaves the story of a group of people who challenge themselves to find love and personal fulfillment in the middle years of life, wondering all the while how they managed to get this old and still not know anything.

    The Snake Can follows three successful, contemporary women: one ten years single, one who has left her loving, actor husband because she feels diminished by his celebrity, and one seven years a widow and single mother. In the course of the play, these women, and their men, go on a journey of self-discovery, examining the gray areas of marriage and divorce, of want and need, of loneliness and self-defeating desperation, of sexual triangles and sexual ambiguity, and-finally-Internet dating as the modern matchmaker.