Kevin O'Morrison
 Agent: Dan Wright, 165 W. 46th St., #1105, NY, NY 10036, Ph. 212-764-6770
10120 240th Place SW
Edmonds, Washington, United States Email: k.omorrison@comcast.net
Home page: http://kevin-omorrison.com
Playwright/Novelist/Lyricist.
HONORS:
The Pinter Review GOLD MEDAL for Drama (for "The Nightgatherers")
NEA Playwriting Fellowship
CAPS Playwriting Fellowship
Twice Chosen for The O'Neill Playwrights Conference ("The Morgan Yard" & "Ladyhouse Blues")
"The Morgan Yard" chosen to open The Dublin theatre Festival, and later, in a production directed by the author, was part of The State of Missouri's National Bicentennial Celebration.
National Repertory Theatre First Prize ("A Party For Lovers")
Some of my plays have been produced in New York, some
regionally, and some abroad; some have won prizes for me
and those who have performed in them or staged them, and
"Ladyhouse Blues" has become a university theatre standard.
I've published three novels in the past four years, written three plays and rewritten two others:
The Plays:
"The Nightgatherers"
Just completed, it has been sent to a Hollywood & Stage actor for his consideration,and to two Regional Theatres. Cast: 4 men.
Performance Rights: Dan Wright, 165 W. 46th St., #1105, NY, NY 10036, Ph. 212-764-6770
"Helen of Troy Tells What Really Happened"
is a one-woman play.
Performance Rights: Dan Wright, 165 W. 46th St., #1105, NY, NY 10036, Ph. 212-764-6770
"The Mutilators":
A terrorist act sends the citizens of the most powerful nation on earth into such a
frenzy of fear that they surrender their powers to a demagogue, who then uses
those powers to lay waste to them and their institutions.
Time: 415 B.C. Place: Athens
It is done in modern dress.
"The Mutilators" is being considered for production by a New York Theatre.
Performance Rights:Dan Wright, 165 W. 46th St., #1105, NY, NY 10036, Ph. 212-764-6770
In "Songs In A Strange Land" Sophie Clery's Greenwich Village flat in NYC becomes the crucible where her inchoate feelings about the Vietnam War from which she has been furloughed home wounded, lead her to become a world class artist. In this process, she and her flat become the center for other vets, who learn how to keep faith with each other in a world that is not keeping faith with them. (4 men, 4 women - early 20s)
Performance Rights: Dan Wright, 165 W. 46th St., #1105, NY, NY 10036, Ph. 212-764-6770
The novels:
The Dead File" exposes the TV Industry Blacklist
as a business run for profit, where the Blacklisters
"clear" their victims for a fee.
Pub. xlibris.com
(ISBN: 1401000015 Hardcover;
1401000037 Softcover)
"The Passion of Brian Loftus"
gives a fractured view of most of "The American Century"
seen through the dying eyes of a man who has been
Consultant to every president from Roosevelt
to Clinton.
Pub. 1stBooks.com
(ISBN 0759674531)
"Honey" is a modern fairy story
wherein Honey Burke's search to
find "cosmick" proof that she "matters"
ends in her finding her prince and
making him an immortal.
Pub. 1stBooks.com
(ISBN 0759674515)
All were published POD and are on sale at
www.bn.com www.amazon.com www.borders.com
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"The Dark Wind of Missouri" (my lyrics: music and vocal by Chris Jones)
was on the Bluegrass Charts for 13 months.
Honors: CAPS Playwrighting Fellowship
NEA Playwrighting Fellowship
NRT First Prize for Playwrighting
Pinter Review Gold Medal for Drama
Member: Dramatists Guild, Inc.
Authors Guild
ASCAP
Professional listings include:
Who's Who In The World
Who's Who In Entertainment
Contemporary Authors
Interests: Drama, Fiction
Published writer: Yes
Freelance: No |
