Kate Black-Spence

For Jamie, life is a quiet business in her Indiana home. For Noa, it's a two year solo mission orbiting the earth. When a radio malfunctions against all odds, can these two women find a meaningful human connection, even though they're worlds apart?

This has been adapted to a 30 minute short film with the same title, produced by Glass City Films, which is presently touring film festivals around the world including multiple festivals in the US, Australia and Canada.

Co-written by Chris Brickhouse, "Ghosts of Whitechapel" is a well-researched but fictionalized account of the five women who have been known in history only as "Jack the Ripper's victims." Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Catherine Eddowes, Elizabeth Stride and Mary Jane Kelly are ready to speak from beyond the grave and ask you to consider the lives they led instead of simply the deaths they suffered.

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MB Hollis has an optics problem. Her readers believe she's a man who hates women based on the novels she's been writing for the last fifteen years. Enter Gretta: A strong woman character to turn her next novel upside down, and with it, Margaret's entire life. While the worlds of fiction and reality intertwine in any writer's mind, Margaret begins to wonder who is in control of hers.

A Neighborhood Association meeting on Zoom goes awry when a vote to remove a tree turns into rehashing old resentments and secrets are revealed. A farcical examination of those hungry for power and the politics of politics.

A ten-minute play: When Siri takes human form and foretells of humanity's destruction, no one is less equipped to handle the news than Helena, a daddy's girl who already struggles to cope with everyday life. This play asks what social distancing means for the entities who've already been pushed to society's fringes.

"Ghosts of Whitechapel: The Zoom play" is a Zoom-adaptation of the well-received, "Ghosts of Whitechapel" cowritten by myself and Chris Brickhouse. This adaptation is made specifically for safe performances over a digital platform where each actor is in isolation.

"Ghosts of Whitechapel" is a well-researched but fictionalized account of the five women who have been known in history only as "Jack the Ripper's victims." Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Catherine Eddowes, Elizabeth Stride and Mary Jane Kelly are ready to speak from beyond the grave and ask you to consider the lives they led instead of simply the deaths they suffered.

A ten-minute play: When Kelly comes home to her mom in time for her father's funeral, questions arise about life, death, and all the mini-deaths we suffer in between. This short play examines what the death of a parent looks like for adult children of divorce, how we express love, how we choose to be loved, and what we owe to those who love us.

An examination of the expectations society sets around women and motherhood, and what it means to have regrets as a new mother.