I Love Parties

by Kate Cortesi

(Brooklyn, New York, USA * and * Somerville, Massachusetts)

Elderly Auntie Patty is presumed to be a member of a "vulnerable population" these days so she's here to set the record straight on exactly who is vulnerable to whom.

about the author:
Kate Cortesi is a Brooklyn- and Boston-based playwright from Washington, D.C who writes about women, young people, liars, and the American psyche - with jokes. Full-length plays include Great Kills (Princess Grace Award), A Patron of the Arts (Cherry Lane Theatre, South Coast Rep New Scripts Series), ONE MORE LESS (NYFA award, Relentless Award finalist, Playwrights Horizons New Works Lab), Love (Sky Cooper New American Play Prize, Marin Theatre Company, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Kilroys List) and Is Edward Snowden Single? (The Jungle Theater, Single Carrot Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival, The Pool). Commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Keen Company and South Coast Rep. Cortesi is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, a Huntington Playwriting Fellow, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist. This past year, Cortesi wrote two quarantine theater works: an audio play called Radio Nowhere, produced by Keen Company, directed by Taylor Reynolds, starring George Salazar, and a short monologue play called "I love parties" - and here we are. For more, visit katecortesi.com