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| Carol Korty
32 Fox Run Lamoine, ME 04605-4619 (207) 667-4441 E-Mail: ckorty@rcn.com |
A play takes over my life. Working on a script is a journey, going to another place in the world and getting inside other people to see how they make sense of things. This is true whether you're writing the script, directing it, or acting in it. I hope that any of you who play with one of mine will find it as challenging and as much fun as I did in developing it.
I started in theater reciting "Wee Willie Winkie" (complete with hand gestures) as a terrified four year old in kindergarten, overcame reticence and lept from Loki the Fire Eater in fourth grade to Lady Capulet in tenth, to professional dance in NYC and on national tour. I've taught and directed at Antioch, SUNY Brockport, UMass/Amherst, Boston University, and Emerson, forming companies with professional and/or student actors to tour theater to schools.
I've enjoyed playwriting residencies at The MacDowell Colony, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Cummington Center for the Arts, and many elementary and secondary schools.
Script recognition: BABA YAGA AND THE BLACK SUNFLOWER, New Visions/New Voices and AATE's Unpublished Plays; ON THE LINE, semi-finalist, Bonderman Playwriting Festival; RIDING THE WIND, NETC'S Aurand Harris Award and AATE's Unpublished Plays; IF I WERE A KID BACK THEN . . . , a participation play, played one hundred performances as Boston Children's Museum's bicentennial exhibit. Playlets from PLAYS FROM AFRICAN FOLKTALES have appeared in Cricket Magazine and reading texts published by Harper and Row, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Scott Foresman, and Houghton Mifflin Riverside. Original Scribner editions of PLAYS FROM AFRICAN FOLKTALES and SILLY SOUP are in libraries across the country and receive numerous productions.
RIDING THE WIND: Story Plays from Old China. Four tales with songs and interludes includes: Yulan's Search for Beauty, The Mysterious Stranger, Li Chi and the Serpent, and The Khan's Daughter. Playing time: one hour. Multiple characters accommodate a huge cast, an ensemble of 14, or 6 using puppets. Opportunities for Chinese music, percussion, dance, and martial arts. Appropriate for elementary age and family audiences, adult or child performers. Scenery: few suggestive props and mime. Costumes: unit outfit with simple pieces added for different characters. |
| BABA YAGA AND THE BLACK SUNFLOWER
Anchorage Press Plays |
| On The Line
New Plays Inc. Study Guide available focusing on immigration, industrialization, and child labor. |
| Plays from African Folktales Players Press, P.O. Box 1132, Studio City, CA 91614-0132 Music by Saka Acquaye and Afolabi Ajayi Illustrations and mask designs by Sandra Cain The Man Who Loved to Laugh 24 plus characters could be played by 5 actors or a classroom of kids. Playing time: one hour Minimal sets and props; optional use of fanciful costumes and masks. Study Guide available focusing on immigration, industrialization, and child labor. Period costumes. Setting: arena staging depicting spinning room, street, family kitchen, office. Sketches provided for simulated spinning frames. |
| SILLY SOUP: Ten Zany Plays with Songs and Ideas for Making Them Your Own
Players Press, P.O. Box 1132, Studio City, CA 91614-0132 Short sketches, ranging from three to fifteen minutes each, based on noodlehead tales from The Mad Merry Men of Gotham and The Wise Men of Chelm. Five songs by Mary Lynn Bianco. Appropriate for young actors and professionals. Minimal set; simple props. Costumes: pedestrian or wildly fantastic. |
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