DONNA KAZ, is an award winning theatre director, choreographer and playwright.
MY UPCOMING PROJECTS
Excited to announce I have been accepted into the 2025/26 cohort of the Jacob’s Pillow Curriculum in Motion Institute — a career development opportunity for emerging, mid-career, and seasoned choreographers to keep our artistry alive and growing! #danceisforeverybody.
2025 PROJECTS:
READINGS: The Docent Awill receive three staged readings in 2025.
Ragdale Residency, September 2024
I am teaching Dance for Parkinson’s at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, Jan/Mar 2025
All Write, Columbia, Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference November 6-9, 2025 in Spencertown, NY – I am co-directing this workshop with Mardi Jo Link To apply: https://kazconference.submittable.com/submit
MY PAST PROJECTS
My 10-minute play, “Stamina” was produced by Amapola Players in Ventura, CA – July 2024
“The Docent” was read by the South Camden Theatre Company on August 19, 2024
A reading of my new play, “April Garden,” took place at Winterthur, Delaware September 21, 2024. This reading was a part of “Discover Winterthur” and was directed by Johanna Schloss.
I went back on stage and starred in “Louise, the Destroyer” by Cate Allen at New Circle Theatre in NYC – October 2023 AND also performed in “Critters” by Eric Lane also at New Circle in February of 2025.
Maker/Creator Research Fellowship Winterthur, DE MAY 2023
Oyster Residency, Ventura, CA April 2023
The Garry Marshall Theatre presented a virtual reading of “The Docent” on September 24, 2022.
Celebrate female playwrights like Donna Kaz. Readings and workshops of “The Sweetgum Trilogy” – three plays by Donna Kaz which use trees to examine how infectious diseases and pandemics can devastate, change, and heal specific communities. For more info contact me.
Kaz Conference Writing Workshop – ongoing classes in creative writing (memoir, nonfiction, playwriting, screenwriting) via zoom. To apply and for more info.
Guerrilla Girls On Tour’s Archives will be placed in the NYU Research Library in 2022. It will all be there – the good, the bad and the ugly. For more info contact me.
Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World at Concordia College, March 2021 (directing/choreographing)
The Docent – original full length play – Winner of the 2020 Jerry Kaufman Award for Excellence in Playwriting (July 2020)
Creative Nonfiction Workshop – November/December 2021 – Kaz Conference Writing Workshop
How To Rock Your Face Mask – Lecture and Poster Making workshop – Cornell College, IA — November 2020
Comedy Writing Intensive for Women 2021 (a part of the Kaz Conference Writing Workshop)
SOME OF MY PAST PROJECTS
