{"id":3024,"date":"2022-08-12T12:45:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T12:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/?page_id=3024"},"modified":"2022-08-12T12:45:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T12:45:04","slug":"hope-katcher-striano-adjunct-professor-intro-to-theatre-arts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/hope-katcher-striano-adjunct-professor-intro-to-theatre-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope Katcher-Striano – Adjunct Professor (Intro to Theatre Arts)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hope Katcher-Striano<\/strong> (Adjunct Professor)\u00a0<\/em>is a playwright, actor, director. Full-length plays include 2022 FutureFest finalist\u00a0The Little Sisters of Littleton,\u00a0The 36<\/em>th<\/sup><\/em>\u00a0Line<\/em>, winner of the Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition, finalist for the Julie Harris Playwriting Award, and semi-finalist for the National Playwriting Conference at the O\u2019Neill. Her newest work,\u00a0Margot<\/em>, will be read soon at the Actors Studio Playwright\/Directors Unit where she is a member. Short plays include\u00a0Bread\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Laughter is the Best Medicine: Forty-Five 5-Minute Plays in the Time of\u00a0Coronavirus<\/em>,\u00a0Scarsdale<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0The Best Ten-minute Plays of 2021,\u00a0<\/em>both published by Smith & Kraus,\u00a0Blue Sky with Approaching Storm,<\/em>\u00a0published by\u00a0ArtAge,\u00a0Missus Dobbs, American<\/em>, featured at the Rogue Theatre Festival and the Writers Playground at Sharon Playhouse, and, in its filmed version, a semi-finalist at the San Francisco and New Jersey Film Festivals. Two other short plays have been filmed and\u00a0can be seen on YouTube:\u00a0A Nice Drive\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Planning Ahead. <\/em>As an actor, she debuted on\u00a0Broadway\u00a0as Tzeitel in Fiddler\u00a0on the\u00a0Roof\u00a0<\/em>opposite Zero Mostel\u00a0<\/em>and repeated the role opposite Herschel Bernard, directed by Jerome Robbins.\u00a0<\/em>With lots in between, her\u00a0last NY appearance was in the off-Broadway production of Daddy Issues<\/em>. TV and film roles include\u00a0Nurse Jackie <\/em>and\u00a0more. \u00a0<\/em>Kate holds an MFA in Creative and Professional Writing with concentrations in Playwriting and Memoir from Western Connecticut State University, and a BFA in Acting from Boston University. She is an Adjunct Professor of Theater at WCSU,\u00a0member of the League of Professional Theatre Women, SAG\/AFTRA and AEA.<\/p>\n

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Hope Katcher-Striano (Adjunct Professor)\u00a0is a playwright, actor, director. Full-length plays include 2022 FutureFest finalist\u00a0The Little Sisters of Littleton,\u00a0The 36th\u00a0Line, winner of the Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition, finalist for the Julie Harris Playwriting Award, and semi-finalist for the National Playwriting Conference …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3024","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/theatrearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}