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The 2005 PEN IS A MIGHTY SWORD winner is Kato McNickle for her play, A Yankee Trader, which finds Dillon Taber down on his luck and the law at his doorstep. The old world is being re-invented all around the Tabers, who have been traders as long as anyone remembers but even a stubborn man must change with the times. In a moment of desperation, Dillon trades his wife for a car and goes on the run to keep his freedom. Amidst the ever-increasing fury of the Great Hurricane of 1938, Dillon’s bargain brings personal disaster and transformation as the storm wreaks havoc all around him.
Kato is a playwright, artist, and director from Connecticut.
She is a 2003 Ensemble Studio Theatre New Voices Fellow, where her play FENCERS was performed as a concert reading directed by Will Pomerantz. Joan's Voices received a Spirit of Broadway Award for Best New Play. The two-hander Leak has received the 2003 Robert Lehan Playwriting Award, Caliban Rex was named a finalist in the '03 Kernodle Playwriting Competition, A Yankee Trader was a finalist in the Seven Devils Conference, Couchfullaluv was produced on Nantucket, and Swimming in the Ocean was a finalist in the Turnip 15-Minute Play Fest.
In 2004, she directed the short digital film The Snowman by Nick Checker.
In October of 2004, The Beast Festival in NYC presented BULL, and her off-beat love-story Girls In Boys Pants was published this past fall in an edition of the Lodestar Quarterly (www.lodestarquarterly.com), and a monologue from Kato's play, For Want of Lobster will be included in an upcoming collection of Best Monologues from Smith and Kraus.
Visit on the web at http://members.aol.com/katomcnick.
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