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Kathleen Lockwood Mcblair

Kathleen Lockwood Mcblair holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MA in the Old Dominion University Creative Writing Program. She was winner of the George Washington University Competitive English Writing Award, and has published her light verse.

Ms. McBlair was editor and scriptwriter for the US Department of Agriculture and wrote two film scripts for Price-Howard Productions in Rockville, Maryland, one of which took second place in the New York Horticultural Film Festival.

Best Always, Marilyn Monroe, was a finalist in the 1988 Virginia Prize for Playwriting and was produced at the Venue on 35th St. She founded Little Theatre for the Deaf and Shadows ‘n Lights Theatre Company under the auspices of VSAarts.

She served the City of Virginia Beach as Performing Arts Supervisor at the Kempsville Playhouse and with Shakespeare-by-the-Sea Festival. One of her favorite jobs was Director of Education for a large Church. There she wrote and directed Liturgical Dramas, as well as fund-raising musicals!

Her full-length play, Best Always, Marilyn Monroe, was a finalist in the 1988 Virginia Prize for Playwriting and was produced at the Venue on 35th St. She founded Little Theatre for the Deaf and Shadows ‘n Lights Theatre Company under the auspices of VSAarts.

  • A small-cast, full-length play by Kathleen McBlair dramatizes the limited private moments of Marilyn Monroe's life after she became a star. Both Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller take the stage in her downward spiral. Her life-after-fame was eerily lonely and filled with long telephone conversations with friends, doctors, and strangers as she groped to find a sense of peace and belonging. This play was a finalist in the 1988 Virginia Prize for Playwriting.
  • A full-length adaptation of Frankenstein. True to the Mary Shelley original, except for a comic servant role, the play depicts the monster Creature with as much horror and sympathy as the original. Excellent for Halloween! Earlier versions of this play by Kathleen McBlair have been performed in school and community theaters since 1980. Audiences love it and scream heartily every time the Creature arrives in the window.

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