Kurt Proctor

Kurt Proctor

Kurt Proctor is a member of the Wasatch Writer's Alliance. As a playwright, he has received full productions of his plays, Treading Water and Roundup. Kurt was a writer in residence as part of the Utah Shakespeare Festival's New American Playwrights Project where his play Turquoise Wind was developed through workshop and public readings.
Kurt was the Founder and Artistic Director of Utah...
Kurt Proctor is a member of the Wasatch Writer's Alliance. As a playwright, he has received full productions of his plays, Treading Water and Roundup. Kurt was a writer in residence as part of the Utah Shakespeare Festival's New American Playwrights Project where his play Turquoise Wind was developed through workshop and public readings.
Kurt was the Founder and Artistic Director of Utah Contemporary Theatre. He directed multiple productions for UCT, including Dirty Blonde, Souvenir! and the world premiers of Talking Wales, and Donna Orbits the Moon.
He is also known to Salt Lake City audiences as an actor having performed for more than twenty years. He currently lives in the northwest hills of Connecticut.

Plays

  • Turquoise Wind by Kurt Proctor
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: women, west + 4 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: women, west, spirituality, Native, Utah, legend
    Toni has a rock shop in Moab, Utah. Lisa is a river guide. Charlotte has moved west to get in touch with her Native Spirit guides. When a very pregnant drifter arrives in the midst of record rainfall and flooding, the three women are challenged to face their beliefs and their connection to place. In this magical tribute to the contemporary, western woman, a mysterious presence passes through their lives...
    Toni has a rock shop in Moab, Utah. Lisa is a river guide. Charlotte has moved west to get in touch with her Native Spirit guides. When a very pregnant drifter arrives in the midst of record rainfall and flooding, the three women are challenged to face their beliefs and their connection to place. In this magical tribute to the contemporary, western woman, a mysterious presence passes through their lives leaving them touched by both nature and legend.
  • Treading Water by Kurt Proctor
    Cast: 
    4–8
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: christmas, climate change + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, holiday
    Keyword: christmas, climate change, Relationships
    Josh and Julia are trapped in a snow storm on a remote road in northern Nevada on Christmas Eve. Ben finds himself trapped on a balcony with a suspicious woman while the city is blanketed in a freakish holiday blizzard. Renee and Quinn navigate the perils of being on a shed roof surrounded by flood waters. And Tom and Jenny ponder the agricultural impact of another ruined winter crop. We never confront...
    Josh and Julia are trapped in a snow storm on a remote road in northern Nevada on Christmas Eve. Ben finds himself trapped on a balcony with a suspicious woman while the city is blanketed in a freakish holiday blizzard. Renee and Quinn navigate the perils of being on a shed roof surrounded by flood waters. And Tom and Jenny ponder the agricultural impact of another ruined winter crop. We never confront climate change until we confront it individually. In this quartet of plays the impacts of climate transformation become personal - at the most sacred of personal times - the holidays. Four Stories, Four Relationships, Forever Changed.