Biography
Kate Moira Ryan. Recent Projects: The Judy Show written with and for Judy Gold is currently playing at the Daryl Roth Theater off-Broadway. She was recently part of Atlantic Theater's 10x25 series and Theater Breaking Through Boundaries Sum of Our Parts. Her play, Bass for Picasso opened off-Broadway at the Kirk Theater and was produced by Theater Breaking Through Boundaries, one of the few professional disabled theater companies. (director Ike Schambelan). It is being published by Playscripts. An adaptation of Ann Bannon's lesbian pulp novels from the 1950s, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, written with Linda S. Chapman ran off-Broadway (director Leigh Silverman). It was produced by Harriet Leve, Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner. It is currently being produced around the country. It won the 2008 GLAAD Media Award and is published by Dramatists Play Service. 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, written with and for Judy Gold, enjoyed a long-running off-Broadway engagement, winning a 2007 GLAAD Media Award and earning Ms. Gold a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Actress. It recently finished a three year national tour. She has been the recipient of numerous fellowships most recently from Sundance Institute, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Center for International Theater Development. She is an alumna of New Dramatists, received her MFA from Columbia University and started her career with the Young Playwrights Festival.
