Awards, Reviews, productions & publication
A Fox in the Henhouse (Formerly The Little Sisters of Littleton) (Rom Com)
- FutureFest Finalist:
The 36th Line: (Drama with comedic overtones)
- Winner: Dorothy SIlver Playwriting Contest
- Finalist: Julie Harris Playwriting Awards
- Finalist: National Playwriting Contest (O'Neill)
Thanksgiving at Shady Pines: Rebellion in a Nursing Home (Comedy)
- Boston Theatre Marathon, 2024
Layover at Reagan National: A couple await a delayed flight with dire consequences (Drama)
- Stageworks Theatre Group, 2022
Scarsdale: Pleasant encounter on the way to a divorce hearing (Comedy)
- Published: Best 10-Minute Plays, 2021. Smith & Kraus
- WInner-TASN Radio Festival, Newburyport, MA, 2021
- Winner- North Park Playwright Festival, San Diego, CA 2020 (presented in March, 2022)
- Ridgefield Theater Barn, Ridgefield, CT One-act Festival
Bassinet: A woman buys a bassinet for an unusual baby (Comedy)
- Ridgefield Theatre Barn
- Tigers Heart Players
Blue Sky with Approaching Storm: Woman caught between her husband and her first love (Comedy)
- Finalist: Maxim Mazumdar Short Play Contest
- Still Crazy After All These Years One-Act Festival, SKTC
- Published: ArtAge Senior Resource Center
Missus Dobbs, American: Dobbs is interrogated t after the January 6th demonstration (Drama)
- Rogue Theater Festival, New York
- Sharon Playhouse/Writer's Playground, Sharon, CT
Bread: A couple struggles with the new reality during the pandemic (Comedy)
- Published: Laughter is the Best Medicine, Forty-Five 5- Minute Plays in the Time of Coronavirus, Smith & Kraus
A Nice Drive: Road rage disrupts a pleasant drive in the country (Comedy)
- Stray Kats Theatre Company (Filmed version on YouTube)
Planning Ahead: A reluctant couple plans their funerals. (Comedy)
- Stray Kats Theatre Company (Filmed version on YouTube)
Sufi Dancing: A NYC basement apartment has a homeless man living under their window (Drama)
- Actors Theater of Harlem
- Theatre Artists Workshop of Westport
Happy T-Day, is it?: A couple deals with an empty nest at Thanksgiving (Comedy)
- Written for Flagpole Radio Cafe
The Goldfish Bowl: Residents of a teen shelter learn it is about to be closed. (Drama)
- Children's Acting Academy (2 productions)
Useless: College roommates deal with a parent's fall from grace.
- Newtown Dance Studio One-Act Festival
A Fox in the Henhouse (Formerly The Little Sisters of Littleton) (Rom Com)
- International Theatre Script
- FutureFest Finalist:
The 36th Line: (Drama with comedic overtones)
- Winner: Dorothy SIlver Playwriting Contest
- Finalist: Julie Harris Playwriting Awards
- Finalist: National Playwriting Contest (O'Neill)
Thanksgiving at Shady Pines: Rebellion in a Nursing Home (Comedy)
- Boston Theatre Marathon, 2024
Layover at Reagan National: A couple await a delayed flight with dire consequences (Drama)
- Stageworks Theatre Group, 2022
Scarsdale: Pleasant encounter on the way to a divorce hearing (Comedy)
- Published: Best 10-Minute Plays, 2021. Smith & Kraus
- WInner-TASN Radio Festival, Newburyport, MA, 2021
- Winner- North Park Playwright Festival, San Diego, CA 2020 (presented in March, 2022)
- Ridgefield Theater Barn, Ridgefield, CT One-act Festival
Bassinet: A woman buys a bassinet for an unusual baby (Comedy)
- Ridgefield Theatre Barn
- Tigers Heart Players
Blue Sky with Approaching Storm: Woman caught between her husband and her first love (Comedy)
- Finalist: Maxim Mazumdar Short Play Contest
- Still Crazy After All These Years One-Act Festival, SKTC
- Published: ArtAge Senior Resource Center
Missus Dobbs, American: Dobbs is interrogated t after the January 6th demonstration (Drama)
- Rogue Theater Festival, New York
- Sharon Playhouse/Writer's Playground, Sharon, CT
Bread: A couple struggles with the new reality during the pandemic (Comedy)
- Published: Laughter is the Best Medicine, Forty-Five 5- Minute Plays in the Time of Coronavirus, Smith & Kraus
A Nice Drive: Road rage disrupts a pleasant drive in the country (Comedy)
- Stray Kats Theatre Company (Filmed version on YouTube)
Planning Ahead: A reluctant couple plans their funerals. (Comedy)
- Stray Kats Theatre Company (Filmed version on YouTube)
Sufi Dancing: A NYC basement apartment has a homeless man living under their window (Drama)
- Actors Theater of Harlem
- Theatre Artists Workshop of Westport
Happy T-Day, is it?: A couple deals with an empty nest at Thanksgiving (Comedy)
- Written for Flagpole Radio Cafe
The Goldfish Bowl: Residents of a teen shelter learn it is about to be closed. (Drama)
- Children's Acting Academy (2 productions)
Useless: College roommates deal with a parent's fall from grace.
- Newtown Dance Studio One-Act Festival
Writing Resume
Plays
- A Fox in the Henhouse: (Formerly The Little Sisters of Littleton FUTUREFEST FINALIST, 2022
"THE LITTLE SISTERS OF LITTLETON is destined to be produced from sea to shining Seattle. The story of two sisters who find that sisterly love is just as valuable as romantic love may not sound as if it would offer belly laugh after titanic belly laugh, but Kate Katcher's witty and warm script will have theatergoers doing just that. In between, they'll also be wiping occasional emotional tears from their eyes. Here's the quintessential audience pleaser that will still be performed when Justin Bieber files for Social Security. Don't miss the chance to partake of its wonders."
-- Peter Filichia, Broadway Radio
- Missus Dobbs, American: (one-act) Martha Dobbs arrives at the airport and January 7th to discover she has been placed on the No-Fly list. FBI agent McCaffrey will help her understand why. Rogue Theater Festival, Sharon Playhouse, New Jersey and San Francisco Film Festivals Semi-finalist.
- The 36th Line: Winner of the Dorothy Silver Playwriting Award, finalist for the National Playwright's Conference, O'Neill Center, this six-character play weaves an old Hebrew legend about the Lamed , 36 Just individuals, and the modern concept of co-dependence
- Margot: Romantic comedy in which nn aging actress with an abject fear of commitment does her level best to sabotage a truly wonderful relationship.
- Remember: One-act play. An old man struggles with reality as he fixates on a past transgression.
- The Jewish Wife, Parts Two and Three. Following the life of Judith Keith, Bertolt Brecht's 1938 heroine, as she moves to Amsterdam and then New York.
- Sufi Dancing: A one-act play that confronts homelesssness and the stress of inner-city life.
- First Impressions: A one-act play about coping with inner-city life.
Short Plays: (10 Minutes or less)
- Thanksgiving at Shady Pines: Rebellion in an assisted living facility over who provided the festive meal. Boston Theatre Marathon, the Wilbury Theatre Group, 2024.
- Bassinette: A woman and her daughter answer an ad for a free bassinette with a strange purpose in mind. Ridgefield Theatre Barn, 2023
- Scarsdale: A chance encounter on a commuter train changes the course of a woman's day, and maybe her life. Published in Best Ten Minute Plays, 2021, Smith and Kraus
- Blue Skies with Approaching Storm: A visit to an art gallery turns a trip down memory lane into a domestic nightmare. Published by ArtAge Senior Resource Center
- Bread: A husband and wife are confronted with the shortage of bread at the start of the Covid pandemic. Published in Laughter is the Best Medicine: Forty-five 5-Minute Plays in the Time of Coronavirus
- A Nice Drive: Husband and Wife take turns behind the wheel on their way to a leisurely dinner.
- Plannng Ahead: Husband and Wife try to make funeral arrangements.
- Decisions, Decisions: Husband and Wife at odds with any sort of plans.
- Like Father, Like Son?: AN 18th birthday reunion and surprise.
- 1963: In Mysterious Ways: A Doctor and his wife grapple with the abortion issue at a historic moment in time.
- Layover at Reagan National- A three-hour layover tskes an unusual turn.
- Happy Thanksgiving, Is It?: The mother of boys deals with a lonely holiday.
Screenplays
- Dino's Business: An odd friendship with a mentally handicapped man leads a disgruntled bus driver to straighten out his life. Quarterfinalist, Certificate of Merit, Cinestory Screenwriting Awards, 2002.
- Second Chance: A frustrated musician looks back on his life and the choice he made that dashed his dreams.
- Full Circle: A horrible realization leads a man to believe he has inadvertently married his daughter. Optioned by The Entertainment Alliance under the title Within the Circle. Originally optioned by Jon Gordon Productions.
- Doubleplay: A girls baseball team aspires to take on the minor league. Optioned by lion TV.
Scripts for Youth
- Useless: Two college boys deal with the consequences of a parent's actions. (Drama)
- The Goldfish Bowl: The daily struggles of young girls in a teen shelter are put aside when the City announces its closing. (Drama)
- Camp Kawanahana: A freak snow-storm hits a summer camp in Maine. (Comedy)
- Peer Review: The all-student review board in a private school tackles discipline for some wacky offenders. (Comedy)
- Seven Minutes in Heaven: two adolescents find themselves locked in a room, expected to 'make-out' for seven minutes. (Comedy)
- Teens At the Mall: four teenage girls and one baby sister cruise the boys at a typical mall. (Comedy)
- Cars: Teenage girls sneak out for a night on the town. (Comedy)
- Filling the Void: three middle-schoolers return to school after skipping out for lunch to find it empty, (Comedy)
- I Fixed It: two young sisters hatch a plan to prevent their father from leaving.
Blog
Essays and ramblings:
Corporate & Educational Scripts
- Katie's Secret: an educational film dealing with sexual abuse among teens.
- My Body / My Buddy: Rainbow Media
- Katie's Keys: Drug use among nurses.
- Caring & Sharing: Rainbow Media
Education
MFA in Creative and Professional Writing, specializing in Playwriting
Western Connecticut State University
BFA in Acting, Boston University