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The World Premiere of "The North Plan" at Portland Center Stage Jan 10-Feb 5
On the Main Stage A world premiere comedy by Jason Wells Directed by Rose Riordan
After a ruthless cabal seizes power in Washington, Carlton Berg, a bureaucrat for the State Department,
runs off with the new regime’s top secret Enemies List. Unfortunately for Carlton, the chase has come to an end in a
police station in the Ozark town of Lodus. With a pair of DHS agents on the way, Carlton’s last chance is in the people
around him: an unsympathetic police chief, an ambivalent administrative assistant, and fellow prisoner Tanya Shepke, (KATE!)
motor-mouthed recidivist and alcohol enthusiast, who appears to have an attention-deficit disorder and thinks Skynyrd should
be on the new money. Let the revolution begin. The North Plan
was an audience favorite at JAW 2010. www.pcs.org/north-plan
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March 9-31
at Actors Theatre of Louisville
The 36th Annual Humana Festival
of
New American Plays Kate is absolutely thrilled to be in "Eat
Your Heart Out"-one of the seven plays selected for this years line up in "the premiere annual event of it's
kind in the nation where the industry's distinguished producers, practitioners, critics and admirers
descend on Actor's Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky for a month long theatrical celebration!"
Eat Your Heart Out
by Courtney Baron
directed by Adam
Greenfield
Bingham Theatre Alice and Gabe are desperate
to adopt a child. Kate plays Nance, a single mom just starting to date, who struggles to connect with her teenage daughter
Evie. And Evie wishes her best friend Colin could fall for her rather than just trying to fix things. With both humor and
aching insight, these lives are woven together in a tale of parental hopes and fears, and of hearts consumed by longing.
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May 1-June 10 at The Folger Shakespeare Library
The Taming of the ShrewRiotous
events lead to the seemingly ill-fated marriage of the arrogant Petruchio and the headstrong Kate. Full of wit and lusty
humor, Shakespeare’s quintessential battle of the sexes redefines the boundaries of love.
Helen Hayes
Award-winning director Aaron Posner leads real life husband and wife Cody Nickell and Kate
Eastwood Norris in a sparring match enlivened by original music composed and performed by singer-songwriter Cliff
Eberhardt. recent performances October 7 through
Nov 6 2011, at Arena Stage in DC
The Book Club Play by
Karen Zacarias directed by Molly Smith
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Kate
plays Ana, who lives in a letter-perfect world with an adoring husband, perfect job and her greatest passion: Book Club. But
when bizarre circumstances put her life under a magnifying glass, things begin to heat up and more truths are told than anyone
bargained for. Arena Stage is proud to bring the latest chapter of Zacarías' (Legacy of Light) "delightful,
fresh comedy" (TalkinBroadway.com) about life, love and literature.
April - June
at The Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, PA
MY WONDERFUL DAY
by Alan Ayckbourn directed by Richard Hamburger Runs May 18, 2011 – June 19, 2011 Critically acclaimed in both London and New York, My Wonderful
Day is the most recent work by Tony® winner Alan Ayckbourn (The Norman Conquests, Absurd Person Singular), who has surprised and entertained audiences with over 70 plays
in the past 50 years. In this play, Laverne, an Afro-Caribbean cleaning woman, brings Winnie, her 9-year-old daughter,
to the house of her wealthy clients in London. (Kate will be playing Paula, one of those wealthy clients. By doing so, she
will get to show off her british accent and facility with bling rage!) Winnie’s determined to complete her school assignment
of chronicling her “wonderful day,” but quite unexpectedly finds herself witness to a tangled love affair. What
ensues is a wickedly funny and bold dissection of a turbulent marriage that serves as Winnie’s topsy-turvy initiation
into Life. "One of the strongest productions I've seen on or off-Broadway
in recent seasons; if you miss it, you'll regret it – a lot!” - The Wall Street Journal THIS PLAY RECEIVED AN OUTSTANDING
ENSEMBLE NOMINATION FOR THE BARRYMORE AWARDS !
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FEBRUARY to APRIL the Regional Premier of GHOSTWRITER by Michael
Hollinger at FLORIDA STAGE runs March 2-April 3
A ghost story of literary proportions
from the award- winning author of Opus. In this beautiful and evocative play, set in early 20th Century New York,
tragedy intercedes for a novelist before he can finish dictating his masterwork to a devoted secretary. (Kate!) Yet, somehow,
she completes the story on her own in a voice that is unmistakably his. Or is it? an enormously moving tale of the power of
love and literature. Delightfully rich and thoroughly theatrical.
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JANUARY -FEBRUARY
LUCY BY Damien Atkins at Delaware Theatre Co. January 19-Feb 6, 2011 Kate
plays Vivian, a brilliant scientist, who is suddenly called upon to take care of her thirteen year old autistic daughter.
Vivian searches for answers for her daughter's mysteries and is forced to confront her own personality. LUCY
asks provocative questions and defies conventionial wisdom about normalcy, motherhood, evolution and autism. KATE RECEIVED A BARRYMORE AWARD NOMINATION FOR OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN THIS PRODUCTION!
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NOVEMBER 3-8 finds Kate at
GEVA Theatre Center in Rochester, NY for their annual Festival of New Theatre. She will be part of the cast working on the
development of Aaron Posner's adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut short stories - "And So It Goes" under BJ Jones direction.
10-14 will find Kate in Alaska, and if that's not exciting enough check out what she will be doing!
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In the upcoming Classic Concert, Story Time, the Anchorage Symphony celebrates
the immense story-telling power of music with four works sure to transport listeners to an ethereal world where enchanting
stories come to life through music: Rossini's William Tell
Overture, Debussy's shimmering Prelude to the Afternoon
of a Faun, John Williams' magicalSuite from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone, and Mendelssohn's incidental music to A Midsummer
Night's Dream with narration from Shakespearean
actors Cody Nickell and Kate Eastwood Norris.
SEPTEMBER and OCTOBER will find Kate still hard at work on "Hamlet" with a workshop of her latest version at Mary Baldwin
College in VA. She is also participating in staged readings all around NYC with some great directors and actors and is happy
to meet all these artists and be a part of developing new works. Some info about the readings appear below
OFFSIDE
by Sergi
Belbel
A
Staged Reading Presented at
The Lark Development Center
Thursday September 30, 2010 @ 7 pm
Translator:
Marion Peter Holt - Director: Mallory Catlett
This
play is also a part of
SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA
Co-Presented
by The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and The Institut Ramon
Llull Excerpts
and Panel Discussion + Full Reading Series
PRELUDE
is a festival exploring the forefront of contemporary NYC theater
and performance. It also looks beyond New York City with its international
SPOTLIGHT series. After focusing on Japan, Argentina, Poland
and Korea this year’s SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA will showcase the work
of contemporary Catalan theater artists - Àngels Aymar, Sergi Belbel,
Marta Buchaca and Esteve Soler. Catalonia, home to Barcelona, is
a distinct region of Spain with it’s own language and cultural history. With the generous support of The
Institut Ramon Llull four new
American translations have been commissioned which will be presented
at the PRELUDE Festival and in readings around the
city.The
SPOTLIGHT brings together
playwrights in collaboration with New York
City translators and directors in a cross cultural conversation around
the production and development of new theatrical texts
From the Producers of Sarah Ruhl's PASSION
PLAY
EPIC THEATRE ENSEMBLE
in partnership with the
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the
Holocaust present a one-of-a-kind reading of
 THE BORN GUILTY CYCLE by Ari Roth directed by Blanka Zizka SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17th, 2:30pm @ The Museum of Jewish
Heritage -36 Battery Place in lower Manhattan Fifteen years ago, Ari Roth (Artistic
Director of Theater J in Washington, DC) received widespread acclaim for BORN GUILTY, a play based on the internationally
renowned book by the Austrian Jewish journalist Peter Sichrovsky. Roth not only adapted Sichrovsky's interviews with children
of Nazis and SS Officers, but also chronicled the impact of this experience on Peter himself. The New York Times heralded the play as a "powerful"
and "searing drama." Spurred by his personal experiences and a variety of
stunning revelations since the premiere of BORN GUILTY, Roth wrote a sequel: THE WOLF IN PETER. Here Roth makes himself a
character as he travels to Europe and risks nearly everything to confront Peter for his seemingly inexplicable decision to
become a member of Austrian's right-wing Freedom Party and ally himself with its outspoken leader, Jorg Haider. For the first
time, Roth has adapted these two related plays into a single unforgettable theatrical event, and is collaborating with acclaimed
director, Blanka Zizka, Artistic Director of The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. This 3.5-hour breathtaking exploration of
the scars of history is in the tradition of Epic's landmark projects such as Kate Fodor's HANNAH AND MARTIN and Sarah Ruhl's
PASSION PLAY. It asks vital questions for all generations as it spans time and continents, seductions and betrayals. AUGUST In NYC, Kate has spent most of the month exploring the world of commercial
auditioning. She also played an extremely efficient and lonely assistant to the Prime Minister of Australia in a reading of
a new play by a very talented up and coming Australian playwright - Amelia Roper: a wonderful person who was very patient
with Kate's attempts at a decent accent. G'day!
JULY was half vacation / half hard work, but all amazing as Kate spent some time on the Chesapeake Bay and
the rest at Portland Center Stage in Portland, Oregon for her second JAW experience!
JAW 2010 had Kate reading plays for Will Eno (a dream come true) and Jason Wells (she's now a big big fan). Will's play was
his take on "Peer Gynt", called "GNIT" and Kate played about 6 or 7 different characters and had a wonderful time saying his
beautiful, hilarious and heartbreaking words. Sam Gold directed and the cast was of course, superb! For Jason, Kate
rocked it out playing Tanya Shepke, an Ozarkian Long Island Ice Tea lovin' revolutionary in "The North Plan". Rose Riordan
directed this powerhouse of a play, the cast kicked it and it was an experience Kate will never forget. Thanks Rose and PCS!
MAY found Kate living one of her wildest dreams as she took
on the character of Hamlet. And Gertrude. And Claudius. And Ophelia. And Polonius. And Rosencrantz. And Guildenstern. And Osric. And the gravedigger.
IN: HAMLET: NOW I AM ALONE
Kate
Eastwood Norris set her theatrical imagination loose upon the Folger stage
with a one-woman arrangement of Hamlet. Combining her extensive experience of playing multiple roles, cross
gender casting, audience interaction and Shakespearean scholarship she created a tornado of a play and presented it on May
17 and 24 at The Folger Theatre in Washington DC to packed and enthusiastic houses! She discovered a great deal with the help
of the audiences and will continue refining this piece over the next few months. stay tuned for future info on this most challenging
of projects!
JAN-APRIL 2010
saw Kate in Berkeley, CA in the world premiere of a new play by Naomi Iizuka
 Concerning
Strange Devices from the Distant WestWRITTEN BY NAOMI IIZUKA
DIRECTED BY LES WATERS
MAIN SEASON | RODA THEATRE
FEBRUARY 26–APRIL
11, 2010
WORLD PREMIERETHE PLAYThe month of March is devoted
to a sexy and intriguing new script in the Roda Theatre. Well before the digital age, the camera selected, filtered and obscured
the truth—even as it promised to provide an authentic look at distant lands. Naomi Iizuka explores the intersection
of art and authenticity in a haunting play commissioned by Berkeley Rep:Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West.
Taking its title from a treatise on photography translated into Japanese, the play shifts between the present and the 1880s
when a weird new technology first seized the world in freeze frame. Cameras capture images of geishas, monks and shrines and
send them to the future in a flash—where we continue to seek meaning through lenses of exoticism and xenophobia. The
intricate parts of this world premiere nestle together like a delicate puzzle…or erotic glimpses of an enigmatic tattoo.
Expose yourself to the mystery of Strange Devices. THE PLAYERSNaomi Iizuka’s plays have been seen at major theatres
in Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. Berkeley Rep also presented the
world premiere of her 36 Views before it played off Broadway. Les Waters, our associate artistic director, won an Obie Award for Big
Love. His shows have ranked among the 10 best plays of 2007 in Time, 2006 in the New York Times and
2005 in TimeOut New York. THE BUZZ“Brash,
tender, and metaphysical by turns, her writing is pervaded with the sense of melancholy beauty that the Japanese call mono
no aware—the knowledge that all things change.”—Village Voice
2009 NEWS and EVENTS
Kate is the proud recipient of the Barrymore
Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for her role as Eleanor/Esme in Tom Stoppard's "Rock & Roll" at the Wilma Theatre!
The Barrymores are awards that celebrate excellence in Philadelphia Theatre and Kate is thrilled to have such a personally
memorable role receive this special recognition.
Kate was back at Woolly Mammoth, this
time playing a chinese translator, a french cook's assistant, an alcoholic blue-collar german dreamer who loves to polka and
the angry shopaholic mistress of the German Chancellor!
FULL
CIRCLE
by Charles L. Mee (Big
Love)
directed by
Michael Rohd (Artistic Director, Portland's Sojourn Theatre)
SEPT---Kate
was in NYC with director Alex Harvey developing a two- woman Henry
V. For any of you who know Kate or have seen her work, you can't help but have some idea how exciting this project
is for her. Multiple roles, cross gender casting AND Shakespeare?...kind of like gazelles for a hungry lion.
AUGUST--- Found Kate teaching for the fifth time
her graduate level CLOWN CLASS at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, VA. It's a 3 credit course focusing on on-your-feet exploration
of the history of comedy, the practice and mastering of physical skills, and understanding the mind and philosophy of a clown.
In other words, students learn to enter a room oblivious of a banana peel, how to trip safely over it and then talk about
why that old chestnut is still hilarious.
 JULY--- Kate experienced a saturated 10
days in Oregon at Portland Center Stage acting in JAW WEST, a playwrights festival that presented 6 plays, all of them
new works by up and coming as well as established playwrights. She made alot of new friends, is a new fan of about 50 actors
and was fortunate enough to work on two plays, one with director Les Waters from Berkeley Rep and author Naomi Iizuka on her
beautiful and atmospheric "Concerning Strange Devices From The Distant West" (Kate's next full production!) and also in the
brilliantly funny and heartbreaking "On The Nature Of Dust", working with playwright Stephanie Timm and Playwright's Horizons'
Adam Greenfield as director. The logo of the festival was WE PLAY ROUGH and Kate did play very rough and thus spent the rest
of July sleeping when not setting off fireworks. OTHER NEWS AND RECENT HISTORY
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