Katie Forgette

Ms. Forgette is an actor-turned playwright. Her plays include: Mrs. Loman is Leaving, Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Welcome to Vital Vista Village, A Facility for Living, The O'Conner Girls, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, Evidence of Things Unseen, Everybody's A Critic, Cindy Rella, The Body Snatcher, It Went Like This, and Circle of Willis. Her plays have been produced at the Alley Theatre, North Coast Rep, Asolo Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Florida Rep, Human Race Theatre, Boston Stage Company, The Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, People's Light, Park Square, Barter Theatre, Austin Playhouse, Cortland Repertory Theatre, The Dorset Theatre Festival, Taproot Theatre, Theatre 40, Centenary Stage, Vertigo Theatre and others....

Ms. Forgette is an actor-turned playwright. Her plays include: Mrs. Loman is Leaving, Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Welcome to Vital Vista Village, A Facility for Living, The O'Conner Girls, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, Evidence of Things Unseen, Everybody's A Critic, Cindy Rella, The Body Snatcher, It Went Like This, and Circle of Willis. Her plays have been produced at the Alley Theatre, North Coast Rep, Asolo Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Florida Rep, Human Race Theatre, Boston Stage Company, The Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, People's Light, Park Square, Barter Theatre, Austin Playhouse, Cortland Repertory Theatre, The Dorset Theatre Festival, Taproot Theatre, Theatre 40, Centenary Stage, Vertigo Theatre and others. Publishers: Sam French, Playscripts and DPS.

Scripts

Mrs. Loman is Leaving

by Katie Forgette

Synopsis

It's opening night of Death of A Salesman at the Teacup Theatre in New York. Two actors returning to the stage after many years have a lot riding on this bare-bones, off-Broadway production. George Ratcliffe, playing Willy, wants the public to remember him from his theatrical glory days; Joanne Rogers, playing Linda, wants the public to finally meet the talent she mothballed for motherhood. But what happens when...

It's opening night of Death of A Salesman at the Teacup Theatre in New York. Two actors returning to the stage after many years have a lot riding on this bare-bones, off-Broadway production. George Ratcliffe, playing Willy, wants the public to remember him from his theatrical glory days; Joanne Rogers, playing Linda, wants the public to finally meet the talent she mothballed for motherhood. But what happens when life imitates art and one of them suffers a break with reality, hallucinating and conversing with a long-dead relative before the curtain has even gone up? And it's not the guy playing Willy.

Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help

by Katie Forgette

Synopsis

The play tells the story of the O'Sheas, a cash-challenged, Irish-Catholic family just trying to get through 1973. Linda O'Shea, our 19-year old narrator, is attempting to re-enact for the audience the most turbulent day of her life, her own, very personal Saturday Night Massacre...but her family keeps interrupting, insisting on telling their side of the story. The 1970s was a time of old school living. No...

The play tells the story of the O'Sheas, a cash-challenged, Irish-Catholic family just trying to get through 1973. Linda O'Shea, our 19-year old narrator, is attempting to re-enact for the audience the most turbulent day of her life, her own, very personal Saturday Night Massacre...but her family keeps interrupting, insisting on telling their side of the story. The 1970s was a time of old school living. No Facebook, no tweets, no texting. A time when public ridicule in a close-knit, hermetically sealed Catholic parish was the ultimate nightmare. When Linda’s mother leaves it to Linda to tell her younger sister about the birds and the bees, the bawdy conversation is somehow overheard by the parish priest...and Father Lovett is not amused. He sets out to confront the family about "the corruption of their eldest daughter's soul."

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily

by Katie Forgette

Synopsis

PUBLISHER: PLAYSCRIPTS, INC.

The wit of Oscar Wilde meets the cunning of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when Wilde brings his dear friend, Lillie Langtry, to Baker Street. Someone has stolen the highly intimate letters she exchanged with the Prince of Wales and now she is being blackmailed. During the course of the investigation, Holmes will disguise himself
as an early version of Lady Bracknell from Wilde’s latest...

PUBLISHER: PLAYSCRIPTS, INC.

The wit of Oscar Wilde meets the cunning of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when Wilde brings his dear friend, Lillie Langtry, to Baker Street. Someone has stolen the highly intimate letters she exchanged with the Prince of Wales and now she is being blackmailed. During the course of the investigation, Holmes will disguise himself
as an early version of Lady Bracknell from Wilde’s latest play, The Importance of Being Forthright; Watson will fall head-over-heels for the Jersey Lily; and Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime, will attempt to bring the Crown to its knees.

Welcome to Vital Vista Village

by Katie Forgette

Synopsis

An all-staff meeting at an upscale retirement community goes terribly wrong.

An all-staff meeting at an upscale retirement community goes terribly wrong.

A Facility For Living

by Katie Forgette

Synopsis

PUBLISHER: SAM FRENCH

A Facility for Living is a comedy/drama set in the future after Dick Cheney has been elected President. Social Security and Medicare have gone bust. Under the new Senior Provision Act (SPA) the aged and infirm are housed in Federal nursing homes (converted penitentiaries). The residents of SPA Facility #273 want to put on a little holiday play for their families, but Nurse Claudia has...

PUBLISHER: SAM FRENCH

A Facility for Living is a comedy/drama set in the future after Dick Cheney has been elected President. Social Security and Medicare have gone bust. Under the new Senior Provision Act (SPA) the aged and infirm are housed in Federal nursing homes (converted penitentiaries). The residents of SPA Facility #273 want to put on a little holiday play for their families, but Nurse Claudia has other ideas... Golden Girls meets Cuckoo's Nest.

Evidence of Things Unseen

by Katie Forgette

Synopsis

Meet the Caldwell family: Abigail, investigative journalist; Jane, stay-at-home mom and born-again Christian; and their father, Jack, retired college professor. When matriarch, Mary Caldwell, is killed in a car accident, it opens a Pandora’s box of poisons and blessings. An intimate family story that deals with alcoholism, suicide, imperfect contrition, the ivory-billed woodpecker and man's endless search for...

Meet the Caldwell family: Abigail, investigative journalist; Jane, stay-at-home mom and born-again Christian; and their father, Jack, retired college professor. When matriarch, Mary Caldwell, is killed in a car accident, it opens a Pandora’s box of poisons and blessings. An intimate family story that deals with alcoholism, suicide, imperfect contrition, the ivory-billed woodpecker and man's endless search for redemption.
And don't let that last sentence scare you. There's a lot of humor in this story.

The Body Snatcher

by Katie Forgette

Synopsis

A very free adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's story. Victorian thriller. Dr. Noakes is desperate to save his young daughter's life. With the help of a brilliant medical student and an unscrupulous resurrectionist, he hopes to perform the first successful heart transplant. Things do not go according to plan.

A very free adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's story. Victorian thriller. Dr. Noakes is desperate to save his young daughter's life. With the help of a brilliant medical student and an unscrupulous resurrectionist, he hopes to perform the first successful heart transplant. Things do not go according to plan.

The O'Conner Girls

by Katie Forgette

Synopsis

PUBLISHER: DPS
The O'Conner story takes place in 1997 in Minnesota over the Christmas holiday. Tom O'Conner has passed away, and his wife (Sarah) and children (Liz, Martha and Matt) have reunited to excavate his mountain of personal effects. As the family sifts through boxes of papers and bags of clothing, clues to the quiet patriarch's life are discovered, prompting the usual heated arguments and some unusual...

PUBLISHER: DPS
The O'Conner story takes place in 1997 in Minnesota over the Christmas holiday. Tom O'Conner has passed away, and his wife (Sarah) and children (Liz, Martha and Matt) have reunited to excavate his mountain of personal effects. As the family sifts through boxes of papers and bags of clothing, clues to the quiet patriarch's life are discovered, prompting the usual heated arguments and some unusual revelations. As the story of Tom and Sarah's marriage unfolds, the children are forced to reconsider their long-held opinions of their parents. In the midst of this emotional afternoon, a long-lost neighbor pays an unexpected visit. Also on the agenda for this day of upheaval is Catholicism, WWII, old movies, old love, new love, oversleeping, overdrinking, large purple hats and weenie hot dishes.

Cindy Rella

by Katie Forgette

Synopsis

When acclaimed director Sir Randolph Van Hubris announces that he is holding auditions for Romeo and Juliet, the ladies of the Rella family prepare for stardom. As Mrs. Rella teaches the art of flattery to her spoiled daughters, Sparkle and Sugar, stepdaughter Cindy must overcome her self-doubt if she's going to earn the role of her dreams. She'll get some help from her Fairy Godmother -- a balding construction...

When acclaimed director Sir Randolph Van Hubris announces that he is holding auditions for Romeo and Juliet, the ladies of the Rella family prepare for stardom. As Mrs. Rella teaches the art of flattery to her spoiled daughters, Sparkle and Sugar, stepdaughter Cindy must overcome her self-doubt if she's going to earn the role of her dreams. She'll get some help from her Fairy Godmother -- a balding construction worker on probation -- in this hilarious tale about Shakespeare, candy addiction, and the art of acting.