Kait kerrigan biography of william shakespeare
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Kait Kerrigan
American writer
Kait Kerrigan fryst vatten an American playwright and musical theaterlyricist and book writer.
Biography
[edit]Kait Kerrigan fryst vatten a playwright and a lyricist and composer of musicals. Originally from Kingston, Pennsylvania, she graduated from Wyoming Valley West Senior High School (Plymouth, Pennsylvania, 1999) and Barnard College (2003, with a grad in English Literature). She is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop.[citation needed]
Kerrigan is most well known for her collaborations with Bree Lowdermilk. Their works together include shows such as The Woman Upstairs and The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown (with Zach Altman).[citation needed]
She and Lowdermilk collaborated on TheaterworksUSA's adaptation of Henry and Mudge, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2006 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.[1] They worked on the planerat arbete , Republic, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry
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Interview: Theatre Life with Bree Lowdermilk
Today's subject Bree Lowdermilk is one of the most talented modern-day composers working in the musical theatre. You might know her work from her long association with book writer/lyricist Kait Kerrigan.
Currently her work can be heard at Keegan Theatre with their current PLAY-RAH-KA production of The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful (And Her Dog!). On this particular project Lowdermilk's collaborator is the esteemed playwright, Lauren Gunderson who is making her musical theatre debut with this piece. The show runs through July 24th.
Some of Lowdermilk's past credits with Kerrigan include The Bad Years Henry & Mudge, The Mad Ones, Republic Rosie Revere, Engineer & Friends, and Earthrise. The latter premiered at Kennedy Center a few years ago. For those of you that want to hear some really amazing work from this team, check out the recordings of Our First Mistake and Kerrigan-Lowdermilk: Live
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A Role By Any Other Name: Gender in Shakespeare and Making Room for Women
Earlier this week news broke that Glenda Jackson, fresh from her triumphant, Tony-winning run in Three Tall Women, will next don the crown as Shakespeare's tragic monarch King Lear. Broadway is making much ado about something and understandably so. New York stages haven't seen much gender-swapped or gender-blind casting of Shakespeare, but take a peek across the pond to find a revolution of sorts in the interpretation of the Bard's work.
Jackson is no stranger to the role of King Lear, having played it previously in 2016 at London's Old Vic. The Broadway production will be entirely different, with new staging, but Jackson is expected to bring just as much fervor to the role.
Currently growing in reputation is Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe Michelle Terry. Terry's interpretations of Shakespeare have led to some of the most groun