THE COFFIN MAKER
by Kate Schwartz
Bronze, a deeply depressed man who lives in a rural village, makes coffins for a living. He’s been emotionally dead due to a tragic event that happened five years prior. His only respite from sorrow comes from playing his beloved violin. (Inspired by Anton Chekhov’s Rothschild’s Fiddle)
- Cast Size: 2M 2W
- Running Time: Under an Hour
- Royalty Rate: $40 per performance
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About the Playwright
Kate earned her MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen at University of Nebraska Omaha. In March 2019, Kate’s play, LEAR/LOMAN, was awarded “Festival Feature” at 2 Cent Theatre’s Acting Out INK Fest (Hollywood, CA). It was chosen “Best of INK Fest” and won five more performances at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in June 2019. In October 2019, Kate had a staged concert-reading of Venus and Mars for Chicago Dramatists/Playwrights Aloud. Retreat in the Berkshires, was included as part of the 2020 Fringe Festival of the Playwriting Symposium at the Mid-America Theatre Conference (Chicago) in March 2020. Her ten-minute play, Nothing Lasts, received a full virtual production at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson, NY in Summer 2020. Auburn University’s Theatre Department included PeacefulME as part of their Together Apart virtual collaboration in November 2020. Her play, The Coffin Maker, was a Finalist for the Tennessee Williams One-Act Playwriting Contest in 2021. A monologue from The Coffin Maker was published in She Persisted: One Hundred Monologues from Plays by Women Over 40. Her play, Ghosted, was a semi-finalist at the Warner International Playwrights Festival in 2022. Clarissa Buys The Flowers Herself had a production in June 2022 in Fremont Seattle (Parley productions)
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