Kevin Doyle (playwright)

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Kevin Doyle is a Brooklyn writer and director of both theatre and film. He has written over a dozen plays that have been produced at Off Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theaters in New York City since 2004.

His play The Position was presented at the 2005 Ice Factory at the Ohio Theatre in New York and at the inaugural Berkshire Fringe Festival at the Daniel Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The complete text of The Position was published in the annual New York anthology Plays & Playwrights 2006 and an excerpt appeared in The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2006. [1] [2] His play not from canada received its world premiere at the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival to critical acclaim. In November 2007, the world premiere of his play Les années amputées (The Amputated Years) will be presented in Québec City in a French translation directed by Jean-Philippe Joubert, Artistic Director of the Québecois theatre company, Les nuages en pantalon. [3]

Doyle first burst onto the New York theatre scene in January 2004 with his absurdist satire Styrofoam. The New York theatre company Feed The Herd presented Styrofoam at their 2004 Stampede Theatre Festival in the now-defunct Off-Broadway venue, The Trilogy Theater. Based upon rave reviews in The New York Times (D.J.R. Bruckner, 1/31/04), NYTheatre (Martin Denton, 1/08/04) other New York press outlets, Styrofoam had its run extended several weeks beyond the scheduled close of the festival. Later that same year, Doyle's play Compression of a Casualty premiered in San Francisco presented by Golden Thread Productions. Based upon the real life story of U.S. Army Spc. Joel L. Bertoldie, the play examined the way the American media broadcasts the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq during the Iraqi insurgency. Compression of a Casualty received unanimous praise from the Bay Area press and solidified Doyle's place as new writer to watch. [4]

Kevin Doyle also serves as Artistic Director of the Brooklyn theatre company, Sponsored By Nobody, which takes it's name from the 1989 concert tour by the Canadian recording artist Neil Young. An exciting new downtown theatre company in New York City, Sponsored By Nobody was the co-recipient of the 2007 Performance Development Award from chashama and the National Endowment for the Arts for their newest piece -- W.M.D. ( just the low points ) -- which uses "found-texts" to investigate Americans' relationship with their media during wartime. Workshop performances were presented during the summer of 2007 at the Chashama Theater and the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. The international cast featured company members of Sponsored By Nobody and French-American actress Kate Moran and Belgian actress Jessa Wildemeersch.[5]

As a film director, Doyle has collaborated with Brooklyn choreographer Mare Hieronimus and is currently working on music videos for the independent bands The Strugglers and Thrushes.

He divides his time between Brooklyn and Québec City.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Introduction" by Martin Denton. PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS 2006. Editor, Martin Denton. Copyright 2006 The New York Theatre Experience, New York, NY. ISBN #0-9670234-7-5. pages 11-12.
  2. ^ The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 2006. Editor, D.L. Lepidus. Copyright 2006 Smith & Kraus, Inc., Hanover, NH. ISBN #1-57525-554-5. pg. 63.
  3. ^ Les Nuages en pantalon - compagnie de création - Au Québec, spectacles multidisciplinaires : danse, théâtre, musique, vidéo, poésie et autres arts
  4. ^ "Playwright Profile" by Martin Denton. PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS 2006. Editor, Martin Denton. Copyright 2006 The New York Theatre Experience, New York, NY. ISBN #0-9670234-7-5. page 249.
  5. ^ chashama Curriculum Vitae 2007

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