Kate Dakota Kremer

Kate Dakota Kremer

Kate Kremer is a playwright based in Brooklyn, NY and Wise, VA whose work explores past, present, and potential systems of oppression and care. Plays include In Some Conceivable World, or Tit Court (semi-finalist Clubbed Thumb Biennial commission and SPACE on Ryder Farm), Untitled Trash Collection (Figge Art Museum), Term of Art (upcoming at JACK, Public Theatre Weasel Festival), Charlatans (finalist Princess...
Kate Kremer is a playwright based in Brooklyn, NY and Wise, VA whose work explores past, present, and potential systems of oppression and care. Plays include In Some Conceivable World, or Tit Court (semi-finalist Clubbed Thumb Biennial commission and SPACE on Ryder Farm), Untitled Trash Collection (Figge Art Museum), Term of Art (upcoming at JACK, Public Theatre Weasel Festival), Charlatans (finalist Princess Grace Award, Bushwick Starr Reading Series), Intimatics (SFX Fest, Dixon Place), Eye Heart Remote (finalist Dennis and Victoria Ross Foundation), No (Brooklyn College), kankedort (commission, Stagefemmes), and Undone (commission, the Motor Company). Kate received her MFA from Brooklyn College under the instigation of Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney. She teaches playwriting at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise and is the editor of the experimental play publishing organization, 53rd State Press.

Plays

  • term of art by Kate Dakota Kremer
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: experimental, political
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    Keyword: immigration, Guantanamo + 4 more
    Genre: experimental, political
    Keyword: immigration, Guantanamo, Supreme Court, love, caregiving, justice system
    term of art draws on Supreme Court cases on immigration, art made by detainees at Guantánamo, and scraps of things overheard. Onstage each night, a transcriptionist struggles to do justice to this material of justice and to be present to the horror of the present. As repeated brutalities become settled law, we are left asking: what can emerge from the inadequacies of love and art?
  • Charlatans by Kate Dakota Kremer
    Cast: 
    11
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    Genre: biography, dark comedy + 8 more
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    Keyword: 18th century theater, Charlotte Charke + 3 more
    Genre: biography, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, experimental, farce, pantomime, period, political, tragedy, verse
    Keyword: 18th century theater, Charlotte Charke, Charles Macklin, Susannah Cibber, Wigs
    A madcap, gender-wiggly play about performance and justice in 18th century London. Inspired by contemporary trial transcripts and memoirs, it follows the histories of two real-life “charlatans”: Charlotte Charke, an actor, playwright, and cross-dresser; and Charles Macklin, an Irish-born actor famed for his murderous temper and sympathetic depiction of Shylock.

    The histories of these two...
    A madcap, gender-wiggly play about performance and justice in 18th century London. Inspired by contemporary trial transcripts and memoirs, it follows the histories of two real-life “charlatans”: Charlotte Charke, an actor, playwright, and cross-dresser; and Charles Macklin, an Irish-born actor famed for his murderous temper and sympathetic depiction of Shylock.

    The histories of these two outsiders intersect with that of Susannah Cibber when Charles Macklin goes into hiding as Susannah's lady’s maid (Charlotte) in the wake of accidentally murdering a fellow-actor, and Charlotte Charke gets a job as a male waiter (Charles) at the hotel where her brother Theophilus imprisons his wife (Susannah Cibber) after kidnapping her from the man he himself pimped her out to.

    Complications ensue and four historical Thomases find themselves called to testify in several courts of equivocal justice.
  • Intimatics I-III by Kate Dakota Kremer
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: experimental, movement/physical + 1 more
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    Keyword: lies, citizenship + 2 more
    Genre: experimental, movement/physical, political
    Keyword: lies, citizenship, intimacy, border wall
    Intimatics is a developing cycle of performance structures that uses performance practices of listening, attention, and collaboration as a method of inquiry into the shifting dynamics that structure citizenship and social intimacy.

    Intimatics (i-iii) raises questions about how borders, walls, prisons, schools, and other governmental structures of containment shape the practice of intimacy...
    Intimatics is a developing cycle of performance structures that uses performance practices of listening, attention, and collaboration as a method of inquiry into the shifting dynamics that structure citizenship and social intimacy.

    Intimatics (i-iii) raises questions about how borders, walls, prisons, schools, and other governmental structures of containment shape the practice of intimacy between individuals and among communities—and how the practice of intimacy might reshape those structures.
  • Eye Heart Remote by Kate Dakota Kremer
    Cast: 
    9–30
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    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic + 2 more
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    Keyword: Drones, figure drawing + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic, experimental, political
    Keyword: Drones, figure drawing, long distance
    An experiment in redaction, Eye Heart Remote is a dark, wild comedy about the kinds of aesthetic and emotional distance that Americans attempt in an era of drone warfare. It’s also a play about kids—real kids—and the world we ought to be saving for them.
  • knackered by Kate Dakota Kremer
    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, experimental
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    Keyword: blindness, grandmothers + 3 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, experimental
    Keyword: blindness, grandmothers, silence, boredom, caregiving
    A play about two blind grandmothers and the family who cares for them. Knackered is full of silence, stories that go nowhere, and long discussions about details that don’t matter. The grandmas are knackered of life, the caretakers are knackered of the grandmothers, and the audience is knackered of the play itself. Everyone just wants to be seen, but our knack is not for seeing but for sadness. Meanwhile, a...
    A play about two blind grandmothers and the family who cares for them. Knackered is full of silence, stories that go nowhere, and long discussions about details that don’t matter. The grandmas are knackered of life, the caretakers are knackered of the grandmothers, and the audience is knackered of the play itself. Everyone just wants to be seen, but our knack is not for seeing but for sadness. Meanwhile, a talking book narrates the history of capitalism.
  • Porch Play by Kate Dakota Kremer
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
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    Keyword: friendship, intimacy + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
    Keyword: friendship, intimacy, masturbation, rape, marriage, art
    Candace, Anna, Ryan, and Bridget gather for a masturbation workshop on their porch while Clare grapples with trauma following her rape. Five years later, the friends gather for a reunion-cum-reckoning. A tragic sex farce dealing with issues of consent and violation, PORCH PLAY explores the shifting intimacies among a group of friends as they find themselves again and again in the porch spaces of consent--the...
    Candace, Anna, Ryan, and Bridget gather for a masturbation workshop on their porch while Clare grapples with trauma following her rape. Five years later, the friends gather for a reunion-cum-reckoning. A tragic sex farce dealing with issues of consent and violation, PORCH PLAY explores the shifting intimacies among a group of friends as they find themselves again and again in the porch spaces of consent--the places between yes and no where, by our failures to communicate our desires and needs, we recreate our hurt.
  • Opera of the Telephone at Delphi by Kate Dakota Kremer
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, political
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    Keyword: labor rights, unionization + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, political
    Keyword: labor rights, unionization, telemarketing, the Iliad
    As the telemarketers at the Delphi Musical Theater approach their year-end goal, lines blur between the fantasy they sell and reality they live, between the stereotyped performances of their pitches, and cravings for an artful life. All blighted in some respect by failed connections in their own lives, the callers seek out surrogates for the people they have lost or are afraid to lose. But for Cassandra, a...
    As the telemarketers at the Delphi Musical Theater approach their year-end goal, lines blur between the fantasy they sell and reality they live, between the stereotyped performances of their pitches, and cravings for an artful life. All blighted in some respect by failed connections in their own lives, the callers seek out surrogates for the people they have lost or are afraid to lose. But for Cassandra, a recent hire and aspiring novelist, unraveling the others’ fictions is the only way to distinguish her potential from their pretensions. Meanwhile, Bobby has a ringing in his ears, Rick hears a trigger click in every hang-up, and as Cass’s truth-obsession tips the balance between intimacy and illusion, the violence that has always lurked in their language becomes all too actual.