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NOVELS
Wrecked Upon This Shore
Killick Press / Creative Book Publishing (fall 2011)
Blasted
Killick Press / Creative Book Publishing (fall 2008)
Island (working title)
In progess - first draft completed
Workshopped at the Banff Centre for the Arts (April 2008)
SHORT STORIES
Ride This One Out read the story
The Link (September/October 2010)
Runaway
Shortlisted for CBC 2008 Literary Contest
www.cbc.ca/literaryawards
Flame Retarded read the story
Broken Pencil - "Best Of" Anthology
ECW Press (2009)
And she knew all the flowers read the story
Take Out Anthology - Issue #1 (winter 2008)
(pieces compiled from "The Cooked and Eaten" Reading Series)
Flame Retarded
Broken Pencil #37 (fall 2007)
And she knew all the flowers
Kiss Machine #14 (spring/summer 2007)
NON-FICTION
Dusk Dances in Peterborough (article)
The Arthur (August 2004)
Beneath the Skin: Shifting Cultural Perspectives on the Body (essay)
The Dance Current, Vol. 5 Issue 8 (February 2003)
Peterborough New Dance: a retrospective (essay)
The Arthur (September 2002)
PERFORMANCE WORKS
Kate's performance works are characterized by elements of dance, theatre and performance art, often in collaboration with other artists (musicians,
choreographers, designers). Written works have been produced as plays, performance art works, and theatre-dance productions.
Performances May be Permanent (2010 & 2011)
Initially created as a solo performance work drawing from the life and death of iconic pianist Glenn Gould, the piece explores Kate's personal connection to the
material. Directed by Ker Wells, with design by Martha Cockshutt, and music by Derek Bell (along with Glenn Gould himself).
Artsweek, Gordon Best Theatre, Peterborough 2010
Emergency 18, Market Hall Theatre, Peterborough 2011
Skirting the Edge (2005-present)
A collection of six original monologues on the issue of women and mental health (Kate contributed Green Spaces, set in a Victorian asylum). The work was
sponsored by Peterborough New Dance/Public Energy, in association with the Behind the Mind's Eye Film Festival, and in partnership with the Peterborough
Regional Health Care Centre, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
Mysterious Entity Theatre - Peterborough 2005, 2006 and 2007; Guelph's Riverrun Centre (fall 2007)
The Cure for Sexual Jealousy (January 2006)
A collaborative work written with designer Martha Cockshutt, musician Susan Newman, writer/director Susan Spicer.
Peterborough, January 2006
"Innovative... evok(ing) feelings of jealousy as ancient as life itself... delighting the audience... It was over all too soon."
Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner
Agoreyphilia (2004)
A dance-theatre collaboration based upon the work of writer/illustrator Edward Gorey, with performer Ryan Kerr, designer Martha Cockshutt, musicians Curtis
Driedger and John McEwan, and other artists.
Market Hall Theatre (Peterborough, June 2004)
"A sensual duet of bodies clanging and clinging... a delightfully droll and polished evening of quips and cranks a la Gorey."
Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner
Hansel and Gretel (2002-present)
Adapted the tale for Arbor Theatre, 2002. Went on to workshop it with the support of the Ontario Arts Council as Hungry, an original piece of musical theatre, with
composer/lyricists Rob Fortin and Susan Newman, and director/dramaturge Susan Spicer. Public Energy, a presenter of dance and theatre, produced the full
production in their 2008 season as Hungry: A Musical Hansel and Gretel.
Crazy... Crazy Like a Fish (2002)
Written and performed by Kate Story, Music composed and performed by Curtis Driedger,
Directed by Susan Spicer, Choreographed by Claudia Moore, Designed by Martha Cockshutt
Peterborough New Dance's Emergency X (Peterborough, 2002)
"Kate Story delivers a compelling and energetic performance... humourous, unsettling and memorable."
Jonothan Fiddler, Peterborough Examiner
Crazy... Crazy Like a Fish (1999)
St. John's Fringe Festival
Performance for an Orange and Violet Room (1999)
7a*11d Festival of Performance Art in Toronto, 1999
Swallowed (1998)
fFIDA (Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists), Toronto, 1998; Emergency, Peterborough, 1998; Significant Others Series, LSPU Hall, St. John's, 1998
"Bold, creative work... comic and confrontational...Leaves you wanting more."
Paul Rowe, CBC Radio
"a truly manic solo... irreverent to a fault... maintains (an) integrated style."
William Littler, Toronto Star
"The L Series is particularly strong, with Newfoundlander Kate Story offering up a humourous blend of theatre and sound... "
Finbarr O'Reilly, The Globe and Mail
Throat (1997)
Summerworks, Toronto, 1997; St. John's Fringe Festival, 1997; Rhubarb! Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, 1997
"I loved it, it moved me, made me laugh."
St. John's Telegram
"Cleverly costumed in a paper dress... a graceful mover and clown... "
Susan Walker, Toronto Star
Play With Fire (1996)
Staged reading at Buddies in Bad Times, directed by Caroline Azar, 1996
In addition, Kate has worked as a writer on many collaborative theatrical shows and independent productions with various companies, including Crossings: the
Bell of Batoche; Fair Play; The 4th Line Farm Show (4th Line Theatre, collaborative works, 1998-2001); and The Maeve Project (Riverbank Productions,
collaborative work, 2000). Kate worked as a community stories mentor with the 4th Line Theatre (going into the community to gather oral histories, and working
with new writers, 1999-01). In the summer of 2003 she dramaturged the original work of students in the Centre for Indigenous Theatre's summer program in
Peterborough. In 2004 was dramaturge for Ryan Kerr's play based upon John Rauston Saul's Unconscious Civilization, developed and performed in collaboration
with The Art Gallery of Peterborough.
Wrecked Upon This Shore
Killick Press / Creative Book Publishing (fall 2011)
Blasted
Killick Press / Creative Book Publishing (fall 2008)
Island (working title)
In progess - first draft completed
Workshopped at the Banff Centre for the Arts (April 2008)
SHORT STORIES
Ride This One Out read the story
The Link (September/October 2010)
Runaway
Shortlisted for CBC 2008 Literary Contest
www.cbc.ca/literaryawards
Flame Retarded read the story
Broken Pencil - "Best Of" Anthology
ECW Press (2009)
And she knew all the flowers read the story
Take Out Anthology - Issue #1 (winter 2008)
(pieces compiled from "The Cooked and Eaten" Reading Series)
Flame Retarded
Broken Pencil #37 (fall 2007)
And she knew all the flowers
Kiss Machine #14 (spring/summer 2007)
NON-FICTION
Dusk Dances in Peterborough (article)
The Arthur (August 2004)
Beneath the Skin: Shifting Cultural Perspectives on the Body (essay)
The Dance Current, Vol. 5 Issue 8 (February 2003)
Peterborough New Dance: a retrospective (essay)
The Arthur (September 2002)
PERFORMANCE WORKS
Kate's performance works are characterized by elements of dance, theatre and performance art, often in collaboration with other artists (musicians,
choreographers, designers). Written works have been produced as plays, performance art works, and theatre-dance productions.
Performances May be Permanent (2010 & 2011)
Initially created as a solo performance work drawing from the life and death of iconic pianist Glenn Gould, the piece explores Kate's personal connection to the
material. Directed by Ker Wells, with design by Martha Cockshutt, and music by Derek Bell (along with Glenn Gould himself).
Artsweek, Gordon Best Theatre, Peterborough 2010
Emergency 18, Market Hall Theatre, Peterborough 2011
Skirting the Edge (2005-present)
A collection of six original monologues on the issue of women and mental health (Kate contributed Green Spaces, set in a Victorian asylum). The work was
sponsored by Peterborough New Dance/Public Energy, in association with the Behind the Mind's Eye Film Festival, and in partnership with the Peterborough
Regional Health Care Centre, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
Mysterious Entity Theatre - Peterborough 2005, 2006 and 2007; Guelph's Riverrun Centre (fall 2007)
The Cure for Sexual Jealousy (January 2006)
A collaborative work written with designer Martha Cockshutt, musician Susan Newman, writer/director Susan Spicer.
Peterborough, January 2006
"Innovative... evok(ing) feelings of jealousy as ancient as life itself... delighting the audience... It was over all too soon."
Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner
Agoreyphilia (2004)
A dance-theatre collaboration based upon the work of writer/illustrator Edward Gorey, with performer Ryan Kerr, designer Martha Cockshutt, musicians Curtis
Driedger and John McEwan, and other artists.
Market Hall Theatre (Peterborough, June 2004)
"A sensual duet of bodies clanging and clinging... a delightfully droll and polished evening of quips and cranks a la Gorey."
Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner
Hansel and Gretel (2002-present)
Adapted the tale for Arbor Theatre, 2002. Went on to workshop it with the support of the Ontario Arts Council as Hungry, an original piece of musical theatre, with
composer/lyricists Rob Fortin and Susan Newman, and director/dramaturge Susan Spicer. Public Energy, a presenter of dance and theatre, produced the full
production in their 2008 season as Hungry: A Musical Hansel and Gretel.
Crazy... Crazy Like a Fish (2002)
Written and performed by Kate Story, Music composed and performed by Curtis Driedger,
Directed by Susan Spicer, Choreographed by Claudia Moore, Designed by Martha Cockshutt
Peterborough New Dance's Emergency X (Peterborough, 2002)
"Kate Story delivers a compelling and energetic performance... humourous, unsettling and memorable."
Jonothan Fiddler, Peterborough Examiner
Crazy... Crazy Like a Fish (1999)
St. John's Fringe Festival
Performance for an Orange and Violet Room (1999)
7a*11d Festival of Performance Art in Toronto, 1999
Swallowed (1998)
fFIDA (Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists), Toronto, 1998; Emergency, Peterborough, 1998; Significant Others Series, LSPU Hall, St. John's, 1998
"Bold, creative work... comic and confrontational...Leaves you wanting more."
Paul Rowe, CBC Radio
"a truly manic solo... irreverent to a fault... maintains (an) integrated style."
William Littler, Toronto Star
"The L Series is particularly strong, with Newfoundlander Kate Story offering up a humourous blend of theatre and sound... "
Finbarr O'Reilly, The Globe and Mail
Throat (1997)
Summerworks, Toronto, 1997; St. John's Fringe Festival, 1997; Rhubarb! Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, 1997
"I loved it, it moved me, made me laugh."
St. John's Telegram
"Cleverly costumed in a paper dress... a graceful mover and clown... "
Susan Walker, Toronto Star
Play With Fire (1996)
Staged reading at Buddies in Bad Times, directed by Caroline Azar, 1996
In addition, Kate has worked as a writer on many collaborative theatrical shows and independent productions with various companies, including Crossings: the
Bell of Batoche; Fair Play; The 4th Line Farm Show (4th Line Theatre, collaborative works, 1998-2001); and The Maeve Project (Riverbank Productions,
collaborative work, 2000). Kate worked as a community stories mentor with the 4th Line Theatre (going into the community to gather oral histories, and working
with new writers, 1999-01). In the summer of 2003 she dramaturged the original work of students in the Centre for Indigenous Theatre's summer program in
Peterborough. In 2004 was dramaturge for Ryan Kerr's play based upon John Rauston Saul's Unconscious Civilization, developed and performed in collaboration
with The Art Gallery of Peterborough.
Writer, performer, and choreographer
Kate Story was born and raised in St.
John's, Newfoundland, in a house built
by her great great grandfather beneath
the Southside Hills. Her short fiction
has been published in magazines
including subTerrain, Pearl, The Link,
Broken Pencil and Kiss Machine, and
her written performance works have
been produced as plays, performance
art works, and theatre-dance
productions in Ontario (Toronto,
Peterborough) and Newfoundland and
Labrador (St. John's). She has been
twice nominated (2004 and 2006) for the
Ontario Arts Council's K.M. Hunter Artist
Award. Blasted is her first novel. Her
second novel Wrecked Upon This
Shore has just been published. Kate is
currently working on Antilia, a young
adult fantasy novel.
Kate Story was born and raised in St.
John's, Newfoundland, in a house built
by her great great grandfather beneath
the Southside Hills. Her short fiction
has been published in magazines
including subTerrain, Pearl, The Link,
Broken Pencil and Kiss Machine, and
her written performance works have
been produced as plays, performance
art works, and theatre-dance
productions in Ontario (Toronto,
Peterborough) and Newfoundland and
Labrador (St. John's). She has been
twice nominated (2004 and 2006) for the
Ontario Arts Council's K.M. Hunter Artist
Award. Blasted is her first novel. Her
second novel Wrecked Upon This
Shore has just been published. Kate is
currently working on Antilia, a young
adult fantasy novel.
| Kate reads some of her work as part of Peterborough's "The Cooked and Eaten" Reading Series |
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Kate was chosen as one of the 29 finalists (from over 2200 entries) in the 2008 CBC Literary Contest in the
short story category. See www.cbc.ca/literaryawards for details. Kate's nominated story is entitled Runaway.
short story category. See www.cbc.ca/literaryawards for details. Kate's nominated story is entitled Runaway.
Peterborough Examiner - February 25, 2009
Kate's novel Blasted has received an Honourable Mention in the Adult Category of the 2009 Sunburst Awards.
The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is a juried award based on excellence of writing
in two categories: adult and young adult. The awards are presented annually to Canadian writers with a
speculative fiction novel or book-length collection of speculative fiction published any time during the previous
calendar year.
The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is a juried award based on excellence of writing
in two categories: adult and young adult. The awards are presented annually to Canadian writers with a
speculative fiction novel or book-length collection of speculative fiction published any time during the previous
calendar year.
Blasted has been longlisted for the 2009 ReLit Awards:
“The country’s pre-eminent literary prize recognizing independent presses.” - The Globe & Mail.
See therelitawards.blogspot.com/ for details.
“The country’s pre-eminent literary prize recognizing independent presses.” - The Globe & Mail.
See therelitawards.blogspot.com/ for details.
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