Kitty Harper

Kitty Harper

I'm a playwright, composer and screenwriter from Birmingham, UK. I have worked in theatre for over 15 years as a writer, director and producer. My main focus as a writer is social and domestic issues, including LGBTQ+, domestic violence and societal discrimination. I mainly write emotionally challenged scripts, such as heavy drama with a quirky comical edge.

I have had 6 plays and...
I'm a playwright, composer and screenwriter from Birmingham, UK. I have worked in theatre for over 15 years as a writer, director and producer. My main focus as a writer is social and domestic issues, including LGBTQ+, domestic violence and societal discrimination. I mainly write emotionally challenged scripts, such as heavy drama with a quirky comical edge.

I have had 6 plays and musicals performed across the UK, including West End London, and had 2 plays published by Lazy Bee Scripts. I have won several awards for my stage plays and screenplays, and recieved serveral nominations and selections for various theatre and film festivals throughout Europe, The US and Canada.

My short play Time Telescope won Best Script in the Nomad Write-Off awards and was performed at Dovehouse Theatre as part of their theatre festival. This was also published by Lazy Bee Scripts in 2018.

I won the 2016 British Theatre Challenge for my comedy short The Gangster Game, which was published by Lazy Bee Scripts, and performed at The Lost Theatre in West End London in 2016.

I was nominated for Best Script and Best Production in the Stratford Fringe Awards for my LGBTQ+ feature Drugged Love in 2017.

I won Best LGBT Script in the Chigaco Script Awards for my screenplay Haphazard, which was also shortlisted for the Steven Knight Make It In Birmingham Writing Competion, and nominated for best script in several film festivals across the nation.

I won Best Thriller for my short film Troll in Hollywood's Monthly Film Festival, which was also selected for Lift-Off Film Festival in London, Berlin and Manchester.

My short film How To Switch Yourself Off was semi-finalist in Long Distance Film festival, which was also selcted for Toronto Film Festival and Social Distance Film Festival.

My feature drama Once Upon A Time, There Was A Man Called Peter was selected for Lift Off Film festival in Los Angeles, Toronto and London, and nominated Best Script in Birmingham Film Festival.

I was nominated for Best Microshort Film for my short supernatural thriller Alexiss in Birmingham film festival, which was also selcted for Manchester Lift-Off Film Festival.

As well as script writing I am also a keen novelist, and am currently writing my debut novel Me Three, and my debut graphic novel Killing Atlantis, which is currently in the process of being drawn up by an artist.

Plays

  • This Place Of Mine (LGBTQ+) by Kitty Harper
    Cast: 
    11–13
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    Genre: drama, faith-based + 2 more
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    Keyword: LGBTQ+, racism + 5 more
    Genre: drama, faith-based, melodrama, political
    Keyword: LGBTQ+, racism, identity, discrimination, multi-cultural, Working Class Britain, religion
    FEATURE: 3 act multi-cultural LGBTQ+ coming of age drama.
    Kai Martin lives in a rundown council estate in Stockport, England. His violent and discriminatory behaviour has rubbed off from his abusive, bigoted father, and hasn't gone unnoticed by the locals. When Kai's best friend, Liam, reveals a shocking secret, a dark turn of events occur leading to Kai's arrest. After 3 years in prison...
    FEATURE: 3 act multi-cultural LGBTQ+ coming of age drama.
    Kai Martin lives in a rundown council estate in Stockport, England. His violent and discriminatory behaviour has rubbed off from his abusive, bigoted father, and hasn't gone unnoticed by the locals. When Kai's best friend, Liam, reveals a shocking secret, a dark turn of events occur leading to Kai's arrest. After 3 years in prison, Kai attempts to turn his life around and do right via certain cultures he once discriminated against. But some members of the community aren't so forgiving.

    Contains strong language, violence, racial and social discrimination.
  • Drugged Love (LGBTQ+) by Kitty Harper
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    14–18
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: LGBTQ+, drama + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, melodrama, musical
    Keyword: LGBTQ+, drama, musical, identity, sexuality, orientation, journey of self-discovery, comedy, social discrimination
    FEATURE: LGBTQ+ 2 act stage drama with musical elements, following three separate storylines that all equivocally intertwine with one another.
    One night in The Sanctuary, an exclusive adult entertainment club, a desolate love square between four people is challenged due to orientational barriers. The club is owned by Angela, a strong business women who fueds with ex-husband and business partner Ron over...
    FEATURE: LGBTQ+ 2 act stage drama with musical elements, following three separate storylines that all equivocally intertwine with one another.
    One night in The Sanctuary, an exclusive adult entertainment club, a desolate love square between four people is challenged due to orientational barriers. The club is owned by Angela, a strong business women who fueds with ex-husband and business partner Ron over the clubs ownership. Luke, a seventeen year old college student, secretly performs as a drag singer at The Sanctuary. But things take a dark turn when his reckless teenage friends find out.

    Contains strong language, violence, gender and identity discrimination, and sexual natured scenes.

    This play contains 3 original songs that can be heard in the music samples. I wouldn't label it as a musical, but songs are required as part of the story, which can either be performed or mimed. I am also a composer with a degree in music composition. I own all rights to these songs.
  • Battle Of The Exes by Kitty Harper
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: adult romantic comedy, female orientated + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, melodrama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: adult romantic comedy, female orientated, societal issues, drama, romance, female discrimination
    FEATURE: Romantic comedy.
    After a messy divorce, and two painful years apart, Jemima and Marcus decide to redecorate their homes, unaware that they have both hired the same decorator. Jemima's sister, Grace, and brother-in-law, Carl, are visiting over the course of a long weekend, along with their baby son, Harry. Everyone knows of Jemima's distaste for children, and have noticed a drastic...
    FEATURE: Romantic comedy.
    After a messy divorce, and two painful years apart, Jemima and Marcus decide to redecorate their homes, unaware that they have both hired the same decorator. Jemima's sister, Grace, and brother-in-law, Carl, are visiting over the course of a long weekend, along with their baby son, Harry. Everyone knows of Jemima's distaste for children, and have noticed a drastic change in her behaviour recently. But secrets begin to unravel as she and Marcus bump into each other one day in the most disastrous way imaginable.
  • Time Telescope by Kitty Harper
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, melodrama
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    Keyword: short play, coming of age + 6 more
    Genre: drama, melodrama
    Keyword: short play, coming of age, meta, Split stage, drama, comedy, domestic violence, social acceptance
    FIFTEEN MINUTE: Split stage drama across two separate timelines. Amy and Brian reminisce at their high school reunion, and relive a painful memory from the night of their leavers ball.

    ("Leavers ball" may be changed to "prom" for audineces outside the UK. The play is partly set in the 90s. "Prom" wasn't officially introduced to the UK until the early 00s.)
  • Blind Dates by Kitty Harper
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: radio, comedy sketch + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, political, radio drama, satire
    Keyword: radio, comedy sketch, political, disability awareness
    5 MINUTE: A blind person hosts a dating show for blind people that isn't quite as innocent as it seems.
  • The Not So Comfortable Interview by Kitty Harper
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: radio, comedy sketch + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, political, satire
    Keyword: radio, comedy sketch, short, gender discrimintation, sexual harassment, assault, criminal, abuse, empowering women, corporate
    5 MINUTE: During an interview for a simple office job, Michael is taunted by some very inappropriate questions.
  • Merry F***ing Christmas by Kitty Harper
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: monologue, ghost story + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, melodrama, mystery/thriller, political, tragedy
    Keyword: monologue, ghost story, death, drink driving, loss
    A 1 page monologue about a dead person's spirit who awaits to see the reaction of their unknowing killer.
  • Growing Into Yourself (LGBTQ+) by Kitty Harper
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, melodrama + 3 more
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, transgender acceptance + 5 more
    Genre: drama, melodrama, movement/physical, political, young audiences
    Keyword: LGBTQ, transgender acceptance, class and gender, self discovery, discrimination, child abuse, constructive gender roles
    5 MINUTE: LGBTQ+ duologue about 2 siblings who journey through a confusing childhood whilst under the wing of their highly conservative parents.
  • A Poetic Sandwich by Kitty Harper
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: comedy, experimental
    Genre: comedy, experimental, satire
    Keyword: comedy, experimental
    2 MINUTE: A customer orders an avant garde sandwich in poetry form.