Lally Katz
Lally Katz (born 1978) is an award-winning American dramatist now resident in Australia.
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[edit] Life and career
Lally Katz was born in 1978 in New Jersey, United States of America, and moved to Australia as a teenager. She graduated from the University of Melbourne's Victoria College of Art in 2000.[1] Katz has written 20 full length plays. Her postmodern and absurdist plays include Black Swan of Trespass (2003) and The Eisteddfod (2004) which have been recognised with a number of awards, both in the US and Australia,[2] including two playwrights awards from Playworks and one from St Martins.[citation needed]
The Black Swan of Trespass, based on the Ern Malley affair, was produced at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, BSharp, Belvoir, and Tower Room Theatre at the Malthouse in 2005, and earned her a Green Room Award and a MIFA award at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.[citation needed] That same year Smashed was produced at The Store Room.
Since then, her performed plays have included Criminology (2007) with Tom Wright in the Merlyn Theatre at the Malthouse, Apocalypse Bear Trilogy (2009) at the Melbourne Theatre Company Lawler Studio as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival, and The Mysteries Project: Genesis (2009) with Hilary Bell at the Sydney Theatre Company Wharf 2.
In 2011, Katz will make her Melbourne Theatre Company main stage debut with Return to Earth at the Fairfax Theatre in November. [3] Her play Neighbourhood Watch will be performed at Belvoir St Theatre in July [4]
[edit] Awards
The Eisteddfod won the Excellence in Direction and Producer's Choice awards at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival.[5]
The Black Swan of Trespass won awards for Excellence in Writing and Best Theatre Production from the Melbourne Fringe Festival, plus the Producer’s Choice Award from the New York International Fringe festival.
Her 2009 play, Goodbye Vaudeville, Charlie Mudd, was performed in the Beckett Theatre at the Malthouse and received the State Library of Victoria's Louis Esson Prize for Drama.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ Lally Katz biography, RGM Associates. Accessed January 26, 2006
- ^ "International smash at just 26", The Age, April 29, 2005. Accessed January 26, 2006
- ^ [1], Melbourne Theatre Company. Accessed October 6, 2010
- ^ [2], Belvoir St Theatre, Accessed 6 October 2010
- ^ The Eisteddfod, FringeNYC 2004 Shows. Accessed January 26, 2006
- ^ "Winners and Shortlist: 2009 Premier's Literary Awards, State Library of Victoria. Accessed April 5, 2010
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