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Kate Wenner
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Kate Wenner

Kate Wenner was raised in California during the 1950s, graduated from Harvard, and traveled throughout Europe, the Middle East, East Africa, and Central and South America before moving to New York, where she spent fourteen years as an award-winning producer for ABC's 20/20. Wenner is the author of the novel Setting Fires and a memoir, Shamba Letu: An American Girl's Adventures in Africa. She lives in New York City and the Berkshires with her husband, artist Gil Eisner, and their two children.

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Excerpt 1 from Setting Fires
Apr 11, 2013
Dancing With Einstein will be released on November 01, 2007 in eBook
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Setting Fires will be released on January 09, 2002 in eBook
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Setting Fires is now available in eBook
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Chapter 1 from Setting Fires
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
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Text Excerpt 1 from Dancing With Einstein
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Hampton Union, April 4, 2013
...ONE's production of "Make Sure It's Me/nh," is the script's first full staging. Author Kate Wenner is a novelist and a former ABC 20/20 producer. ACT ONE'S cast will include three military veteran performers and run three weeks in June. "So that's about...
Denver Post, September 14, 2012
...same again. And there a tough-minded doctor decides to expose the Pentagon's indifference to an epidemic playwright Kate Wenner calls this generation's Agent Orange. Studio theater, 30 W. Dale St., 719-634-5583 or csfineartscenter.org The Avenue's...
Hampton Union, October 11, 2012
..."(We're) developing a series of events addressing traumatic brain injury in military service members stemming from Kate Wenner's play 'Make Sure It's Me,'" she explains. It started back in January after ACT ONE Artistic Director Stephanie Voss Nugent...
Hampton Union, October 4, 2012
...Sunday, Oct. 7. Theater patrons will have the opportunity to meet and talk with writers Leslie Pasternack and Kate Wenner. Pasternack is the author and performer of "Clean Room," a one-woman piece currently playing in ACT ONE's Festival 2012. Wenner is...
Foster's Daily Democrat, October 3, 2012
...Leslie Pasternack and Kate Wenner featured in ACT ONE's "Meet the Playwrights" Special Event. PORTSMOUTH — ACT ONE's Festival 2012 will host "Meet the Playwrights" at the West End Studio Theatre on...
Denver Post, September 14, 2012
...same again. And there a tough-minded doctor decides to expose the Pentagon's indifference to an epidemic playwright Kate Wenner calls this generation's Agent Orange. Studio theater, 30 W. Dale St., 719-634-5583 or csfineartscenter.org The Avenue's...
Colorado Springs Independent, September 5, 2012
...30 W. Dale St., 634-5583, csfineartscenter.org. Make Sure It's Me, a performance of the play by Kate Wenner that focuses on the traumatic brain injuries war inflicts. $15. Sept. 13-23. Gypsy, a musical from the "golden age" of Broadway, based on the...
Broadway World, August 15, 2012
...Rising Sea at Queens Theatre in the Park, Chris Newbound’s The Birthday Boy at Berkshire Theatre Festival, Kate Wenner’s Make Sure It’s Me at Stage Left Theatre, and later this summer, Kelly Masterson’s Edith at Berkshire Theatre Group. Also,...
Berkshire Eagle, June 8, 2012
...theater in the Berkshires entirely dedicated to the development of new plays by both established and emerging writers. Kate Wenner's first play, " Make Sure It's Me," was read during the Lab's 2010 season. " The huge difference between BPL and other...