Kate Moira Ryan started her career in 1985 as a winner of the Young Playwrights Festival. Her adaptation of Dorothy Allison's novel, Cavedweller premiered at New Yorks Theatre Workshop and was published Dramatists Play service. Her play, OTMA is being produced by the Atlantic Theater in NYC in June. It was also recently produced at the Ekaterinburg Youth Theatre in Russia. G-d Doesn't Pay Rent Here written with and for comedian Judy Gold will be seen at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on June 22, and also the Montreal Comedy Festival July 16-22. Her adaptation of Ann Bannon's The Beebo Brinker Chronicles with collaborator Linda Chapman will be produced in NYC spring 2006.
She has received grants and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Sumner Locke Elliott Exchange from New Dramatists to the Australian National Playwrights Conference, a two year Van Lier Fellowship from The Women's Project and Productions, Yaddo, MacDowell, Edward Albee and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundations. She was awarded the Brook Atkinson/Max Weitzenhoffer Fellowship to the Royal National Theater in London. She was a finalist for the Susan Blackburn Prize, and a winner of the Joseph A. Calloway Award.
