KATHLEEN
TOLAN
Katheen’s play Memory House premiered at Playwrights Horizons in Spring ‘05, and has been produced at many theaters, including Actors Theatre of Louisville, Victory Gardens, Seattle Rep, and Trinity Rep. Other plays include Kate’s Diary (Playwrights Horizons and the Public Theater); A Girl’s Life (Trinity Rep); The Wax (Playwrights Horizons); A Weekend Near Madison (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Astor Place Theatre, and theaters across the country and in Europe); The Cottage; What To Listen For; I Was Reading a Novel by Javier Marías; and, most recently, Acting School. She is writing a memoir called Remember This.
She has written for TV and film.
Commissions include the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Company, Trinity Rep, and Seattle Rep. She received a McKnight Fellowship, a Calder Fellowship, a Thornton Wilder Fellowship, a NYFA Fellowship, two Sundance Residencies (one at UCross), and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Residencies include Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony (multiple times), Hedgebrook, Byrdcliffe, and VCCA. Plays published by Samuel French, Dramatists Play Service, and Playscripts.
She is Associate Professor and Head of MFA Playwriting at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, and teaches a playwriting class at Barnard College.
NEW PLAYS BY
KATHLEEN TOLAN
SCENE STUDY 1969
mother and personal assistant to an extremely abusive Princess who lives in NYC. She, along with two undocumented employees hate their boss. Problem is, she pays pretty well. In the Murphy’s Law category of bad timing, Deliz discovers she has breast cancer just as she is to testify in a forgery trial against the Princess.
