Kate Moira Ryan
katemoiraryan.com katemoiraryan@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Columbia University MFA 1990
Trinity Washington University BA 1987
Dual citizenship United States EU/Republic of Ireland
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Primary Stages Instructor NYC, NY 2013-Present
New York Theater Workshop Instructor NYC, NY 2012- 2019
University of Cincinnati/CCM Instructor Cinncinnati, OH 2005-2006
Young Playwrights International Instructor NYC, NY 2015
COURSES
WRITE YOUR OWN CHERRY ORCHARD Einhorn School of the Arts/Primary Stages 2022
REWRITING YOUR FIRST DRAFT Einhorn School of the Arts/Primary Stages 2022
COMEDY WRITING FOR THE STAGE Einhorn School of the Arts/Primary Stages 2021
COMEDY WRITING FOR THE STAGE Einhorn School of the Arts/Primary Stages 2020
WRITE YOUR OWN CHERRY ORCHARD Einhorn School of the Arts/Primary Stages 2020
COMEDY WRITING FOR THE STAGE Einhorn School of the Arts/Primary Stages 2019
COMEDY WRITING FOR THE STAGE Einhorn School of the Arts/Primary Stages 2018
COMEDY WRITING FOR THE STAGE Einhorn School of the Arts/Primary Stages 2013
PLAYWRITING 102 New York Theater Workshop 2020
PLAYWRITING 101 New York Theater Workshop 2020
PLAYWRITING 102 New York Theater Workshop 2018
PLAYWRITING 101 New York Theater Workshop 2017
PLAYWRITING 102 New York Theater Workshop 2016
URBAN RETREAT Young Playwrights international 2015
WRITING THE ONE-ACT University of Cincinnati
Arnold Weinberger Teaching Fellowship 2005-2006
Guest Artist/Lecturer
NYU Guest Artist Atlantic Theater NYC, NY 2022
Solo Performance/Einhorn School of the Arts
Judy Gold Zoom, 2021
Monologue/Audition Class Karen Kohlhaas Zoom, 2021
Lawrence Woodmere Academy Woodmere, NY 2019
University of Maryland Baltimore, MD 2011
American Center Moscow Moscow, Russia 2008
Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 2006
Choate Rosemary Hall Wallingford, CT 2005
Ural Polytechnic Institute Ekaterinburg, Russia 2004
AREAS OF INTEREST
PLAYWRITING, SCREENWRITING, SOLO WORK AND PERFORMANCE, RUSSIAN THEATER HISTORY, LGBTQI THEATER HISTORY, COMEDY WRITING, STANDUP, AND COMEDIC PERFORMANCE, THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NEW WORK DEVELOPMENT, ADAPTATION, AND LIBRETTO WRITING FOR OPERAS AND MUSICALS.
NY STATE Department of Education k-12 Certification in Theater and 7-12 in Adolescent English
SUBSTITUTE TEACHER, DRAMA FIORELLO LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL 2021
SUBSTITUTE TEACHER, DRAMA/REGULAR BANK STREET SCHOOL 2018-2019
9TH AND 10TH GRADE THEATER TEACHER DEMOCRACY PREP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL NYC, 2016
11TH & 12TH GRADE CHEKHOV SEMINAR DEMOCRACY PREP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL NYC, 2016
SUMMER SCHOOL DRAMA DEMOCRACY PREP CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL NYC, 2016
*Teaching Philosophy, Diversity Statement, Evaluations, and Syllabi are available upon request.*
SELECTED PLAYS – FULL LENGTH BY KATE MOIRA RYAN
25 QUESTIONS FOR A JEWISH MOTHER written with Judy Gold (Productions)
Premiere - ARS NOVA NYC, NY 2006
directed by Karen Kohlhaas
Winnipeg Jewish Theater 2022 Winnepeg, Canada 2022
Minnesota Jewish Theater Company 2020 Minneapolis, MN 2020
Primary Stages NY, NYC, 2019
Encore Theater District, Palm Springs, CA 2019
Temple Israel Orange, MA 2019
Axelrod Performing Arts Center Deal, NJ 2016
JCC Centerstage Rochester, NY 2016
Toronto Center for the Arts Toronto, Canada 2015
Sapulpa High School Sapulpa, OK 2015
Bay Street Theater Sag Harbor, NY 2014
Basis Schools Tuscon, AZ 2014
Arizona Onstage Productions Phoenix, AZ 2014
Triangle Productions Portland, Oregon 2013
Museum of Jewish Heritage NYC, NY 2012
Myers Theater at Merage JCC Orange County, CA, 2012
JCC West Orange West Orange, NJ
Penguin Rep New Jersey, 2013
David Handelman Hall/JCC West Bloomfield, NJ 2010
Rehoboth Beach Theater of the Arts Rehoboth, NJ 2009
Cleveland Playhouse Cleveland, OH 2008
Suzanne Roberts Theater Philadelphia, PA 2008
Center Stage Theater Atlanta, GA 2008
Theater J Washington, DC 2008
Marine Memorial Theater San Francisco, 2008
Huntington Theater Boston, MA 2007
Kravis Center Palm Beach, FL 2007
North Shore Center
for the Performing Arts Skokie, IL 2007
ST. LUKE’S THEATER NYC, NY 2007
Montreal Comedy Festival Montreal Canada, 2005
Empty Space Theater Seattle, WA 2002
OTMA (Productions)
Premiere - Atlantic Theater NYC, NY 2006
directed by Karen Kohlhaas
Athens Community Theater Athens, GA 2021
Erskine College Due West, SC 2020
Springstead High School Spring Hill, FL 2018
University of NC School of the Arts Winston Salem, NC 2018
Springstead High School Spring Hill, FL 2017
Hopewell High School Hunterville, NC 2014
Prairie Woolf Waldorf School Pewaukee, WI 2014
Estonian Theatre Agency Kuressaare, Estonia 2013
Village Academy Centreville, OH 2012
University of Oregon Eugene, OR 2012
Village Academy Schools Powell, OH 2012
University of Maryland, Baltimore Baltimore, MD 2011
Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO 2011
University of Denver, Theater Denver, CO 2011
Theater Breaking Through Barriers NYC, NY 2010
Roundtable Ensemble NYC, NY 2010
Baylor University Waco, TX 2010
University of Portland Portland, OR 2009
Lake George Theater Lab Lake George, NY 2006
Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 2006
Yekaterinburg Young People's Theatre Russia 2004
Workshops
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (CCM) Cincinnati, OH 2005
Centenary College Theatre Hackettstown, NJ
(Women's Playwrights Festival workshop)
New York Theatre Workshop/New Works Festival
Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College Hannover, NH 2003
New York University (Hot Ink Festival workshop) NYC, NY 2002
BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES
Adaptation of Ann Bannon’s 1950’s Lesbian Pulp Novels Written with Linda S. Chapman
Productions
Premiere
4th Street Theater/Hourglass Group NYC, NY 2006
37 Arts produced by Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin, Harriet Leve, and Jamie deRoy
directed by Leigh Silverman
Desert Ensemble Theatre Palm Springs, CA 2021
Pocket Sandwich Theater Dallas, TX 2015
Galleria Studio Theatre Fort Lauderdale 2013
Celebration Theater Houston, TX 2012
StageWest Theater Company DesMoines, IA 2011
Cherry Manhattan Presents Seattle, WA 2011
Gay Fest Philadelphia, PA, 2011
Buffalo United Artists Buffalo, NY 2010
Richmond Triangle Players Richmond, VA 2010
Brava Theater San Francisco, CA 2010
WEATHERMEN rock musical book co-written with Doug Wright, music by David Clements
Director- Christopher Ashley
LaJolla Playhouse Workshop NYC, NY 2019
LaJolla Playhouse DNA New Work Series LaJolla, CA 2018
NEXTLINK FINALIST NY MUSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL 2012
TheatreWorks Palo Alto, CA 2011
LaJolla Playhouse New Works LaJolla, CA 2009
CAROUSEL OF DEMOCRACY
Workshop
NYTW Mondays at 3 directed by Christian Parker NYC, NY, 2019
THE JUDY SHOW, MY LIFE AS A SITCOM WRITTEN WITH JUDY GOLD
Productions
Premiere
Daryl Roth 2 Theater Union Square 2011
Geffen Playhouse Los Angeles 2012
Williamstown Theater Festival Williamstown, MA 2011
Theater J Washington D.C. 2011
MOTHERF$CKING O’MALLEY’S
Workshops
Primary Stages NYC, NY 2019
Nylon Fusion NYC, NY 2018
New York Theater Workshop
Mondays at 3 pm NYC, NY 2018
Barrow Group NYC, NY 2017
Animus New Play Development Series NYC, NY 2016
Ensemble Studio Theater NYC, NY 2015
Lark Play Development Center NYC, NY 2014
Primary Stages NYC, NY 2013
IN THE MONKEY HOUSE
Commissioned by Grrl Parts/ University of Maryland Baltimore/Featured Artist
UMBC Baltimore, MD 2011
Mondays at 3
New York Theater Workshop NYC, NY 2017
Mondays at 3
New York Theater Workshop NYC, NY 2015
Semi-finalist, O’Neill Playwright’s Festival 2013
New York Theatre Workshop’s
summer residency at Dartmouth College
Guest Artist 2008
A CASE OF OBSCENITY written with Linda S. Chapman, a play about the 1920 obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall’s groundbreaking Lesbian novel, THE WELL OF LONELINESS
Artist Residency
Workshops
Mondays at 3 New York Theater workshop directed by Chay Yew NYC, NY 2016
Mondays at 3 New York Theater Workshop directed by Ed Iskander NYC, NY 2014
Mondays at 3 New York Theater Workshop directed by Lisa Peterson NYC, NY 2013
Mondays at 3 New York Theater Workshop directed by Lisa Peterson NYC, NY 2012
BLINK
Production
3 Brothers Theater Waukegan, IL 2016
Workshops
Thrown Stone Reading Series Ridgefield, CT 2016
Midtown Direct Theater South Orange NJ 2016
Dorset Theater Festival Dorset, VT 2015
THE ROAD TO MESSINA/Beheaded
Workshops
Theater Breaking Through Barriers NYC, NY 2013
New York Theatre Workshop/New Works Festival
Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College directed by Michael Grief
NewYork Theater Workshop Summer Residency Hannover, NH 2008
Mondays at 3 New York Theater Workshop NYC, NY 2006
BASS FOR PICASSO
NYU Community Fund Recipient
Production
Theater Breaking Through Barriers Kirk Theater NYC, NY 2010
TANYA TANYA, written by Olga Mukhina, adapted from Russian by Kate Moira Ryan. Commissioned by Center for International Theater Development (CITD) directed by Yury Ournov. Translated by John Friedman
Production
Towson State University Dept of Theater Towson, MD 2010
Workshops
Martin Segal Center, City University, NY NYC, NY 20010
New York Theater Workshop NYC, NY 2010
Nuovo Drama Festival Moscow, Russia 2009
CAVEDWELLER
Adaptation of Dorothy Allison’s novel
Commissioned by LaJolla Playhouse directed by Michael Grief
Music by Stephen Trask and Julia Greenberg
Recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Creativity Grant
Productions
Premiere
New York Theatre Workshop NYC 2003
Directed by Michael Grief
ABET Theater Jacksonville FL Fall 2006
University Theatre-University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 2005
Workshops
New York Theatre Workshop/New Works Festival,
Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College Hannover, NH 2001
LaJolla Playhouse New Works Festival LaJolla, CA 1999
LEAVING QUEENS – A musical about the Irish Immigrant Experience
Commissioned by the Women’s Project and Productions. Composer Kim D. Sherman.
Recipient of 2001 National Endowment for the Arts Creation and Presentation Grant
Productions
Premiere
The Women’s Project and Productions NYC, NY 2001
Portland Stage Portland Stage, Maine 2000
Women’s Project and Productions NYC, NY 2001
Workshops
Carnegie Mellon Festival of New Plays Pittsburgh, PA 1999
Little Festival of the Unexpected/Portland Stage Portland, ME 1999
Directed by Bartlett Sher
DAMAGE & DESIRE
Productions
Premiere HERE/New Georges NYC, NY 1998
Baliwick Repertory Chicago, IL 1999
Workshops
Festival of Lesbian Work
Magic Theater San Francisco, CA 2000
Festival of Lesbian Work at the Magic Theater San Francisco, CA 2000
Active Arts Calgary, Canada 1999
Garofano Verde, Teatro Flainano Rome, Italy 1998
Just Add Water Festival, New York Theater Workshop
Hopkins Center for the Arts, NYTW Summer Festival Hanover, NH 1998
Workshop at the Royal National Theater Studio London, England 1998
Directed by Nicholas Wright.
Showcase of New Plays/Brava! For Women in the Arts San Francisco, New York
Steppenwolf Theater Chicago, IL 1998
Mid-West Playlabs Minneapolis, MN 1998
HAROLD’S DEATH
Productions
The Working Women’s Theater Co San Francisco, CA
CHASING NABOKOV’S BUTTERFLIES
Workshops
Mark Taper Forum New Works Festival Los Angeles, CA 2003
THE WORGELT STUDY
Productions
Dixon Place NYC, NY 1999
HADLEY’S MISTAKE
Productions
Premiere
Soho Rep in conjunction with New Georges NYC, NY 1999
Directed by Bartlett Sher
Bingham Hall, University of North Carolina 1997
Workshops
New Works Festival Mark Taper Forum 1996
Williamstown Summer Theater Festival /Reading Series 1998
Directed by Bartlett Sher
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AIKEN FICTION
Productions
The Women’s Project and Productions/
New Georges Samuel Beckett Theater, NYC 1992
Brown University Providence, RI 1992
University St. Andrews, Scotland Edinburgh, Scotland, 1992
Workshops
The Australian National Playwrights Conference Canberra, Australia, 1992
SELECTED PLAYS – SHORT PLAYS / ONE-ACTS
WHAT’S YOUR LAST MEAL? commissioned by Half Moon Theater
Half Moon Theater Hyde Park, NY 2015
THE KING OF KINGS/THE MYSTERIES Commissioned by The Flea
The Flea NYC, NY 2014
CHENEY FAMILY XMAS AS PLAYED OUT ON FACEBOOK/Seven by Seven/commissioned by YPI
Young Playwrights International NYC, NY 2013
CASTING CALL commissioned by Theater Breaking Through Barriers
Theater Breaking Through Boundaries NY, NY 2011
MASTERCLASS Atlantic Theater NYC, NY 2011
THE VILLAGE OF AMBRIDGE New Works Atlantic Theatre NYC, NY 2004
CASTRO CONVERTIBLE GIRL TWEED 9th Annual New Works Festival NYC, NY 1994
FREE RIDE ON THE QUEEN MARY LaMama, ETC NYC, NY 1992
PUBLICATIONS
THE LOST SPY NOVEL Kindle Press 2017
Winner of Kindle Scout Award 2017
Audiobook for Audible produced by Tantor Media Narrated by Christa Lewis
25 QUESTIONS FOR JEWISH MOTHER with Judy Gold Playscripts, Inc 2013
BASS FOR PICASSO Playscripts, Inc 2011
CAVEDWELLER Outstanding Women’s Monologues, Volume Two Dramatists Play Service 2010
BEEBO BRINKERS CHRONICLES
(with Linda S. Chapman) Dramatists Play Service 2009
BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES The Best Women’s Stage Monologues (with Linda S. Chapman) Smith & Krause 2008
25 QUESTIONS FOR A JEWISH MOTHER (with Judy Gold) Hyperion Press 2007
Nominated for a Quill Award
25 QUESTIONS FOR A JEWISH MOTHER Monologues for Women, Vol.2 (with Judy Gold) Playscripts, Inc 2008
OTMA Playscripts, Inc 2006
CAVEDWELLER Dramatists Play Service 2004
MY OBSESSIONS Global City Review 2000
Except from HADLEY’S MISTAKE Global City Review 1999
TWENTY YEARS AND STILL Global City Review 1999
CASTRO CONVERTIBLE GIRL Global City Review 1999
SECRET DREAM OF ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Global City Review 1999
100 STRIKES Heinemann 1996
THE WORGELT STUDY The Best Stage Monologues of 1996
Smith and Kraus 1996
FREE RIDE OF THE QUEEN MARY The Best Stage Monologues of 1992 Smith and Kraus 1992
FILM/SCREENPLAYS
GAME ON written with Marya Cohn finalist Drama Screenplay Austin Film Festival 2016
SHOPLIFTING CHANEL screenplay, an official selection Directed by Marya Cohn
San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Frameline 2001)
Feminale Cologne, Germany 2001
Lesben Film Festival Berlin, Germany 2001
Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Austin, TX 2001
Murphy’s Cork Film Festival Cork, Ireland 2001
Mix Brasil Festival Brasil, 2001
HONORS / AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
Kindle Scout Award for THE LOST SPY Kindle Press Books/Amazon 2017
Silver Award Winner, Reader’s Favorite Award THE LOST SPY, 2017
Research/Travel Grant to Russia Trust for Mutual Understanding 2004
Fellowship to the Golden Mask Festival (Moscow) Trust for Mutual Understanding 2005
Sundance Playwriting Fellowship Ucross Foundation 2009
Nomination Quill Award Nonfiction 25 Questions for Jewish Mother 2009
GLAAD MEDIA AWARD for Outstanding NY Theater BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES 2008
FINALIST, LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES 2007
GLAAD MEDIA AWARD for Outstanding NY Theater 25 QUESTIONS FOR A JEWISH MOTHER
STONEWALL HONOREE STONEWALL COMMUNITY FOUND 2011
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship Ensemble Studio Theater 2006-2007
Weinberger Playwright Teaching Fellowship University of Cincinnati 2005-2006
Fellowship to the Nuovo Drama Festival Center for International Theater 2004
Fellowship to Nuovo Drama Festival Center for International Theater 2003
Joe Calloway Award New Dramatists 1998
Finalist, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize HADLEY'S MISTAKE 1997
Brooks Atkinson New Dramatists Exchange Royal National Theater, London 1996
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship 1994
Sumner Locke Elliott Fellowship Australian National Conference 1993
Van Lier Fellowship Women’s Project and Productions
Helene Wurlitzer Fellowship Taos, New Mexico 1995
Yaddo Fellowship Saratoga, NY 1992
MacDowell Fellowship Peterborough, NH 1993
Edward Albee Fellowship Montauk, New York 1992
Winner- Young Playwrights Festival NYC, NY 1985
SERVICES TO THE FIELD
Semi-Finalist Judge Austin Film Festival,
Full-length Drama Austin, TX 2019-2021
Final Judge, Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama,
Columbia University NYC, NY 2018, 2017
Women’s Project and Productions Lab NYC, NY, 2020
Final Judge, Young Playwrights International NYC 2012-2015
Scenarios USA Selection Committee 2014
Pride Films & Plays - Women's Work Contest -
Finalists Reading Committee 2011
New Dramatists Selection Committee 1998
BOARDS/COMMITTEES
Dramatists Guild Political Engagement Committee 2017-2018
Trinity Washington University (Alumnae Board member) 2001-2015
Young Playwrights International (Advisory Board Member) 2013-2015
New Dramatists Alumnae (member Board Member) 1992-1994
INVITED MEMBER
Usual Suspect New York Theater Workshop (Lifetime)
Keen Playwrights Lab NY, NYC, 2015
New Dramatist Residency 1992-1999
Women’s Project and Productions Lab 1994
Dramatists Guild
DRAMATURGY EXPERIENCE
Dramaturg/Young Playwrights International NYC, NY (1990- 2015)
Mentor/Yale Playwrights at New Dramatists Playreading Festival 2000
Panels (Selected)
Primary Plus, Lunch and Learn Playwriting Prompts with Kate Moira Ryan via Zoom 2020
Parity in Producing Women Playwrights moderated by Susan Jonas featuring Kate Moira Ryan, Lucy Thurber, Julia Jordan, Tanya LaSaracho, Shelia Callaghan, Center Theater, Baltimore, MD 2012
Panel discussion at NY Gay and Lesbian Center featuring Ann Bannon, Kate Moira Ryan, and Linda Chapman about THE BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES, production at the Fourth Street Theater with a Q and A, 2006.
“New Russian Drama Voices in a Shifting Age,” moderator Phillip Arnolt and Robin Quick, Towson University, Maryland, 2009
INTERNATIONAL/WORLD THEATRE New Russian Drama: OLGA MUKHINA’s Tanya-Tanya Featuring excerpted readings of KATE MOIRA RYAN’s adaptation of Tanya-Tanya And a discussion with PHILIP ARNOULT, JOHN FREEDMAN, and KATE MOIRA RYAN NEW YORK CIT Presented by The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY in collaboration with Philip Arnoult 2009
“Adapting Russian Theater to an American Stage” PANEL about KATE MOIRA RYAN’s adaptation of Tanya-Tanya by Olga Mukhina, John Freedman, dramaturg Christian Parker/Atlantic Theater moderated by Anne Cattaneo from Lincoln Center Towson University, MD. 2009
Other Radio Show/CoHost
HATCHED BY 2 CHICKS CO-HOST with JUDY GOLD SIRIUS RADIO 2010-2012
Two Lesbian Moms take on the news of the week with celebrity guests.