Katie Walker

Katie Walker (she/her) is a Playwright from Denver, Colorado and based in New York City. Katie has had her work developed through the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Across a Crowded Room program and the WorkShop Theater's Writers Intensive program. She currently serves as the NYC-Metro Regional VP for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and works as a Research Assistant for the Theatre on Film and Tape archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. She has evaluated submissions for the Literary Department at The Playwrights Realm, Normal Ave, and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Katie loves stories of all kinds that come from a place of authenticity and ask important questions. Her Dramaturg/Director NPX profile is also...

Katie Walker (she/her) is a Playwright from Denver, Colorado and based in New York City. Katie has had her work developed through the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Across a Crowded Room program and the WorkShop Theater's Writers Intensive program. She currently serves as the NYC-Metro Regional VP for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and works as a Research Assistant for the Theatre on Film and Tape archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. She has evaluated submissions for the Literary Department at The Playwrights Realm, Normal Ave, and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Katie loves stories of all kinds that come from a place of authenticity and ask important questions. Her Dramaturg/Director NPX profile is also available at https://newplayexchange.org/users/60797/katie-walker.

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Scripts

Pearls May Bleed

by Katie Walker

Cast Size
6—10
Genre
adaptation,
drama,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
movement/physical,
verse

When the little mermaid travels to the underworld, she makes a deal with Death to exchange her voice for legs in the hopes to obtain an immortal soul. A chance encounter leads her to meet the recently deceased Evridiki who is suffering from painful memories from her marriage with the famous musician Orfeas. This meeting results in a lifeline for both women as the little mermaid tries to make a life for herself...

When the little mermaid travels to the underworld, she makes a deal with Death to exchange her voice for legs in the hopes to obtain an immortal soul. A chance encounter leads her to meet the recently deceased Evridiki who is suffering from painful memories from her marriage with the famous musician Orfeas. This meeting results in a lifeline for both women as the little mermaid tries to make a life for herself in the world above and Evridiki attempts to forget her past. This intersection of the Andersen tale and the Greek myth examines gender biases and the resonance of female friendship as both women face difficult decisions to claim agency over life and death.

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In the Shadow of Woman

by Katie Walker

Cast Size
6—10
Genre
biography,
docudrama/historic

In the Shadow of Woman explores the way that Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birutė Galdikas forged the field of primatology through their research on chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. The play highlights the differences in how they approached their work and how the work affected their personal lives. All non-human primates are evoked through shadow puppetry.

In the Shadow of Woman explores the way that Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birutė Galdikas forged the field of primatology through their research on chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. The play highlights the differences in how they approached their work and how the work affected their personal lives. All non-human primates are evoked through shadow puppetry.

Call Me Kit

by Katie Walker

Cast Size
5—6
Genre
biography,
docudrama/historic,
musical

Book by Katie Walker, Music by Katherine Goktepe, Lyrics by Katie Duggan, with Acting/Devising by Victoria Chaieb. Call Me Kit is a twenty-minute musical that follows Katharine Cornell during her Broadway production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street by Rudolf Besier. The musical explores her career as an actress and producer, her marriage to her director, Guthrie McClintic, and her meeting future love interest...

Book by Katie Walker, Music by Katherine Goktepe, Lyrics by Katie Duggan, with Acting/Devising by Victoria Chaieb. Call Me Kit is a twenty-minute musical that follows Katharine Cornell during her Broadway production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street by Rudolf Besier. The musical explores her career as an actress and producer, her marriage to her director, Guthrie McClintic, and her meeting future love interest, Nancy Hamilton.

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The Marlin Project

by Katie Walker

Cast Size
5—6
Genre
musical,
satire,
science fiction

Book by Katie Walker and Holly Hepp-Galván. Music by Kay Clark. Lyrics by Holly Hepp-Galván. When Marlin struggles to write without his former girlfriend and writing partner, Emma, he finds himself consulting a Chat GPT bot named Gemma.

Book by Katie Walker and Holly Hepp-Galván. Music by Kay Clark. Lyrics by Holly Hepp-Galván. When Marlin struggles to write without his former girlfriend and writing partner, Emma, he finds himself consulting a Chat GPT bot named Gemma.

Samantha in Coney Island

by Katie Walker

Cast Size
6—10
Genre
adaptation,
period

20 minute adaptation of Marietta Holley's Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands - Written as a response to the 2022 Across the Crowded Room prompt at the New York Library for the Performing Arts

20 minute adaptation of Marietta Holley's Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands - Written as a response to the 2022 Across the Crowded Room prompt at the New York Library for the Performing Arts