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Kathleen Warnock

Kathleen Warnock (born June 8, 1960) is an American playwright, journalist, editor, and reading series curator. Her plays have been produced in the New York City, regionally, and internationally in England, Ireland, and Australia. She contributed to, and became series editor for Best Lesbian Erotica from 2009-2015. She curates the literary reading series, Drunken! Careening! Writers! (since 2004).

Early life Warnock was born in Philadelphia, the eldest of five children of Dorrance H. Warnock, a federal law enforcement officer, and Rosemary Boyle Warnock a Registered Nurse.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1999-04-03-9904030343-story.html

https://metropolitanfuneralservice.com/memorial/rosemary-b-warnock/

She attended the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and was sports editor, then editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper, The Retriever, and a member of the varsity fencing team. She graduated cum laude in 1980, with a B.A. in Option II (From Written Word to Visual Image), and a minor in Ancient Greek.

'''Can’t open - University of Maryland-Baltimore County -- USE A SENSE OF PLAY AT BOTTOM

... https://retriever.umbc.edu/

Journalist In college, Warnock interned at the Baltimore News-American, and began her professional journalism career on the Columbia (S.C.) Record in 1981, covering scholastic, amateur and professional sports.

...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_News-American

...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Record

Moving to New York City in 1984, she wrote, and continues to write, news stories, interviews, and reviews for publications including New Directions for Women, ROCKRGRL, BUST, American Book Review, Writer’s Digest, NYPress, The Dramatist, Howlround.com, Brooklyn Rail, 7X7 and Gay City News, where she is a Contributing Writer.

...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Directions_for_Women -- SEE ARCHIVE LISTING AT BOTTOM

...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROCKRGRL

...https://bust.com/

...http://americanbookreview.org/

...https://www.writersdigest.com/

...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Press

https://www.dramatistsguild.com/thedramatist-archive

https://howlround.com/commons/kathleen-warnock actual bio

https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Kathleen-Warnock actual bio

Warnock, Kathleen, Dublin on the Cusp of Greatness (Again) Apr 25, 2014 https://www.7x7.com/dublin-on-the-cusp-of-greatness-again-1786766086.html

Warnock, Kathleen, St. Pat's for All Storms Back to Queens - Gay City News https://gaycitynews.com › st-pats-for-all-storms-back-to... Mar 7, 2022 https://gaycitynews.com/st-pats-for-all-storms-back-to-queens/

Literary Arts In 1990, Warnock became Program Coordinator for The Writer’s Voice of the West Side YMCA, a non-profit literary arts center. She was promoted to Assistant Director, then Director in 1998.

https://www.facebook.com/WSYWritersVoice/

At The Writer’s Voice, Warnock helped create and run writing workshops and residencies, curated their literary reading series, coordinated The Writer’s Voice Awards, and served as Editor of WV literary magazine.

In 2004, Warnock founded the reading series Drunken! Careening! Writers! at KGB Bar in New York City. Drunken! Careening! Writers! “is a reading series based on the proposition that all readings should be by: 1) Good Writers; 2) Who read their work well; 3) Something in it makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts). And 15 minutes tops.”

Knipfel, Jim, Drunken! Careening! Writers! The Liveliest Reading Series in NYC, OZY, April 16, 2016 https://www.ozy.com/good-sht/drunken-careening-writers-the-liveliest-reading-series-in-nyc/67880/

https://www.facebook.com/DrunkenCareeningWriters

Publishing In 2000, Warnock became an Editor for Frommer’s Travel Guides. She edited over 150 books for Frommer’s, as well as writing articles for Frommers.com, appearing on the Frommers.com podcast, and winning two Lowell Thomas Awards for the first editions of Frommer’s MTV USA Roadtrips (Grand Prize for Editorial Excellence), and Frommer’s MTV Italy (Silver Medal).

https://www.frommers.com/

https://www.frommers.com/trip-ideas/family/way-way-downtown-new-theatre-in-louisville-kentucky byline article

https://www.frommers.com/trip-ideas/road-trip/frommers-com-podcast-great-american-road-trips-for-the-mtv-generation guest host mention

CAN’T OPEN – NEED URL Lowell Thomas Awards

https://www.amazon.com/MTV-Road-Trips-U-S-Guides/dp/0764587765 - editor mention, also a bio

https://www.amazon.com/MTV-Italy-Guides-Sylvie-Hogg/dp/B008SLVUKM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1G7DLLQ85MYV9&keywords=mtv+italy&qid=1647711521&s=books&sprefix=mtv+italy%2Cstripbooks%2C90&sr=1-1

but should be https://www.amazon.com/MTV-Italy-Guides-Sylvie-Hogg/dp/B008SLVUKM/ - no name mention

In 2009, she was named editor of the Best Lesbian Erotica series (Cleis Press). BLE was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in Best Lesbian Erotica twice.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/search/books/Category-Fiction/Imprint-Cleis-Press/Series-Best-Lesbian-Erotica-Series/_/N-g1hZ1z10xyeZ1z0zfkm/Ne-pgw?options%5bsort%5d=BOOK_ON_SALE_DATE_SINCE_EPOCH%7C1%7C%7CBOOK_ORDER%7C0 -- no name mention   PICK ARTICLES FROM THIS PAGE http://www.kathleenwarnock.com/best-lesbian-erotica.html

Playwriting Warnock has written dozens of short plays and full-length works.

Her short solo play, “How to Get Married in Five Steps and 17 Years” was commissioned by Project Y Theater as part of their Landmarks and TRANSformation series. It was nominated for “Best Performance Art” by the NY Innovative Theatre Awards, and Warnock performed it at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, and the Lower East Side Theater Festival.

https://www.projectytheatre.org/ no name mention

http://www.projectytheatre.org/2017/01/landmarks-transformations-eag-february-18-26th/ - play listed

Her other plays include “The Further Adventures of…,” produced at the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (finalist, Oscar Wilde Award), FringeNY (Award for Excellence of Ensemble), Gadfly Theater MN, The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS) (Finalist for Best Short Script), Dixon Place NY, Women’s International Theater Festival, Provincetown.

https://dff.ie/whats-on-events/the-further-adventures-of-gay-theatre-festival - flier for play

https://www.theateronline.com/pb.xzc?PK=54908 article about fringe

https://www.meetup.com/MinnSpec/events/231003297/ -- listed gadfly

https://thoughtgallery.org/events/the-further-adventures-of-adam-eva-2015-11-24/ TOSOS article

https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Kathleen-Warnocks-THE-FURTHER-ADVENTURES-OF-Opens-This-Week-for-One-Night-Only-716-20140713 dixon place review

“To the Top” won the South Carolina Playwrights Festival, and was presented at Trustus Theater, in Columbia, SC and Australia.

https://trustus.org/playwrights-festival/ -- play listed at side

https://trustus.org/ wonky not needed no listing

AUSTRALIA https://www.facebook.com/events/758508044245966/?ref=newsfeed NAME, WEAK, FACEBOOK LISTING

“Grieving for Genevieve” won the John Golden Playwriting Award at Hunter College, where Warnock studied with playwright Tina Howe. Originally produced at the Midtown International Theatre Festival, it was later produced by Venus Theater in Laurel, MD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Howe - no mention, not sure of value except internal link

https://www.facebook.com/MITFNYC/ -FACEBOOK no mention, find another source

https://www.venustheatre.org/ NO mention, NEED an article or press releast

“Rock the Line” was produced by Emerging Artists Theatre in New York City, and later by Venus Theater in Laurel, MD. It is scheduled for production by TOSOS in January 2023.

https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2016/09/19/review-rock-line-venus-theatre-company/ Review: ‘Rock the Line’ at Venus Theatre Company by Michael Poandl September 19, 2016 ACTUAL REVIEW GOOD

Theater administrator and producer In 1984, Warnock became assistant to Sabra Jones, Artistic Director of the Mirror Repertory Company, an Off-Broadway company presenting plays in alternating repertory. She continued to work for the Mirror throughout its Off-Broadway run, and its summer repertory in Belfast and Bar Harbor, Maine. She remains an Artistic Associate of the Mirror.

CAN’T OPEN Mirror Repertory Company – not sure of value

She was Playwrights Company Manager for Emerging Artists Theatre from 2010-2015, and curator of the Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwrights Project for TOSOS from 2011-2019. She is currently Associate Artistic Director of TOSOS.

CAN’T OPEN Emerging Artists Theatre  isn’t there some article?

Personal Life Warnock is married to Donna Bungo and lives in Queens, NY.

Source articles: https://magazine.umbc.edu/a-sense-of-play-kathleen-warnock-80-inds/ good profile better for BALTIMORE and others I can do a selection of selected works or my personal website and NPN.

External sites: www.kathleenwarnock.com https://newplayexchange.org/users/3757/kathleen-warnock

CINDY NOTES -- LINKS TO USE MORE https://howlround.com/commons/kathleen-warnock BIO

https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Kathleen-Warnock bio

A Sense of Play – Kathleen Warnock ’80, INDS, UMBC Magazine - June 1, 2013 https://magazine.umbc.edu/a-sense-of-play-kathleen-warnock-80-inds/ good profile better for BALTIMORE and others –mentions lesbian erotica also drunken careering plays

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN https://files.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C4031.pdf FIND AN ARTICLE HERE: https://www.jstor.org/site/reveal-digital/independent-voices/newdirectionsforwomen-27953679/

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Michael Warren Powell (1937-2016) was an Artistic Director, director, actor and designer involved in the Off-Off-Broadway movement and the development of new plays in New York City and elsewhere.

Early Career
Originally from Martinsville, Virginia, Powell attended the Goodman Memorial Theater School at the Art Institute of Chicago. In the early 1960s, he moved to New York City with his friend, Lanford Wilson, both aspiring theater artists. The two lived together and formed a personal and professional partnership that lasted for many years.

In New York. Powell worked as a design assistant for a home decorator, Leona Kahn, and became involved with the Caffe Cino as an actor and designer.

Acting and Designing
Powell acted in several productions at the Caffe Cino, the coffeehouse theater in the West Village that was founded by Joe Cino and is often described as the birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway.

Plays in which Powell acted included the 1964 debut of The Madness of Lady Bright by Lanford Wilson and directed by Denis Deagan, one of the early plays of the gay theater movement. Powell appeared in the revival of The Futz and The Clown, for which he also constructed the costumes. For Wilson's one-act play Home Free! at the Cino, Powell originated the lead role of "Lawrence" alongside Joanna Miles in the other title role. Neil Flanagan directed.

When Home Free! was offered a production as part of the New Playwright Series at the Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre, Powell again co-starred with Miles, but this time under the direction of another Caffe Cino regular, Marshall W. Mason. For the Cherry Lane production, Powell designed and constructed an eye-catching set and props. The play, which was on a bill with two other plays, Sam Shepard’s Up to Thursday and Paul Foster’s Balls, opened in February 1965. Home Free! later toured to England, Powell reprising his role, but this time with Claris Nelson as his co-star.

In 1969, Marshall Mason, Lanford Wilson, Tanya Berezin and Rob Thirkield founded the Circle Theater Company, later to become Circle Repertory Company or simply Circle Rep, to shape and develop new plays by supporting the voice of the playwright.

In the next seasons that followed, Powell worked as an actor and designer with Circle Rep, while branching out to other Off-Off Broadway theaters such as La Mama, Stage 73 and Theatre of the Eye Repertory Company. In 1990, Powell took on the original role of Uncle Fred in the Circle Rep premiere of Prelude to a Kiss (play) by Craig Lucas. The production, with Alec Baldwin and Mary-Louise Parker was directed by Norman René.

Directing
Increasingly, Powell turned his attention to directing, as well. In 1987 he directed the revival of William M. Hoffman’s As Is (play) at Circle Rep, a production in which Powell also co-designed the costumes with Susan Lyall. In 1991, he directed The Balcony Scene by Wil Calhoun at Circle Rep with Cynthia Nixon in one of the roles.

Over the years, Powell took on directing assignments in many venues, including Wings Theater, Chashama, and others. In the summers in the late 1990s, he directed plays at the Cape Cod Theatre Project, including works by Carter W. Lewis, Lanford Wilson and Clark Middleton.

Artistic Director
In becoming an Artistic Director, Powell found a heightened level of theatrical engagement and had a significant impact on the development of new plays.

In 1985, Powell was named the Artistic Director of The Lab at Circle Rep. The Lab offered opportunities for writers to shape and develop their work in readings and performances. The Lab "was perhaps the most vibrant element of the theater," wrote Marshall Mason. "At its peak, The Lab was training ground for more than 300 participants," he said. Powell served as the Artistic Director until 1996 when Circle Rep closed, working with a constellation of playwrights that included Terrence McNally, Paula Vogel, Craig Lucas and Lanford Wilson.

When Circle Rep closed its doors, Powell established and became the Artistic Director of the Lab Theater Company, which later became Circle East Theater Company. The company continued the work of The Lab at Circle Rep by developing and producing new plays. Circle East continued until Powell’s death in 2016.

Beginning in 1995, Powell established The Play Lab at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, a summer festival in Alaska, first known as the Edward Albee Theatre Conference. The Play Lab worked with playwrights to develop their plays and present readings. At the outset in 1995, The Play Lab worked with six Alaskan writers. By 1999, the conference was holding workshops for 54 playwrights from 35 states.

Powell also became the Artistic Director of the School of Theater of the New York State Summer School of the Arts, a program that nurtures young theater artists chosen from across the state.

Other
From 1995-2000, Powell was a Professor of Theater on the Directing Faculty at Rutgers University.

After his death in 2016, former Circle East members formed the New Circle Theater Company, operating out of the Michael Powell Community Center in Powell's former home in Midtown Manhattan.