New Dramatists: Honour Kane

	Honour Kane c/o Jim Flynn The Jim Flynn Agency 208 West 30th Street, Suite 401 New York, NY 10001 (212) 868-1068 (212) 868-1052 fax Email: newdramatists@newdramatists.org

Honour Kane's plays has been produced by the Public Theatre’s New Work Now, Sydney's Annual Mardi Gras Arts Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, BACA Downtown, New Georges, The Theatre Outlet in Allentown, PA, and Ireland's Inishbofin Arts Festival. Her work has been developed by A.S.K. at Lincoln Center Theater, London's Royal Court Theatre, Playlabs, Oregon's Portland Center Stage, Irish Repertory Theatre, and City Theatre in Pittsburgh. She holds fellowships from the NEA, NYFA (2002, 1990), a NYSCA Individual Theatre Artist Commission, a Bunting Fellowship at Harvard/Radcliffe, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, MacDowell and Yaddo residencies, and a Berrilla Kerr Playwriting Award. Accolades from New Dramatists include an Australian National Playwrights' Conference Exchange, a Whitfield Cook Prize, and the 2003 Frederick Loewe Award.

autodelete://beginning dump of physical memory// CRACKSKULL ROW IN PIGEON HOUSE MADAME KILLER NEBRASKA KISS
_{honour kane} autodelete://beginning dump of physical memory// A Dark Comedy, 90 Minutes, No Interval 3M, 1 W Flexible Set "Memory ain't truth. It's a twisted cocktail of perceptions, wants, and strategic deletions." Kick Malone--publisher/story merchant/high-flying media babe—has 20 bestsellers on the list when she loses her mind.
_{honour kane} CRACKSKULL ROW A Dark Comedy, 90 Minutes, No Interval 2 M, 2W Unit Set Down the back lanes where the gardens aren't kept lies Crackskull Row -- the Dublin cul-de-sac where Masher Moorigan shares a ruined house with a tribe of ghosts who dog her with the sins of '66. Masher is lost to the time when: the IRA blasted Lord Nelson from his pillar on O'Connell Street, she still had goldy hair, and her husband, Basher -- a fiddling man -- streeled the roads, busking to drink and drinking to busk.
_{honour kane} IN PIGEON HOUSE A Dark Comedy, 90 Minutes, No Interval 2 M, 2W Flexible theater An acrobatic, hallucinatory romp through Irish theatrical history. Inspired by actual stories from Ireland's "fit-up" artists, IN PIGEON HOUSE tracks a band of kickabout actors as they travel Ireland's allover. Dramatic extravaganzas that feature variety acts, high drama, the fil-ums, and . . . raffle contests.
_{honour kane} MADAME KILLER Co-written with Diana Kane A Dark Comedy of Manners, 90 Minutes, No Interval 1 M, 4 F Flexible Set Gotham, 1878. Set in the parlors and back rooms of Manhattan Society, this Gothic Noir features Mme Restell -- New-York City's elegant and devious power broker, self-made millionaire, and underworld doctress.
_{honour kane} NEBRASKA KISS Co-Written with Diana Kane A Western, 90 Minutes, No Interval 4 M, 2W Two boys, a girl, one busted down car. Love, bucks, and revenge in the dark heartland of America.



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