The Ride (A Musical)
Full length musical
Book co-lyrics Katherine Nolan/Music co-lyrics Pete Barry
Six cyclists find each other while tackling a 530-mile bike ride down the California coast — together they confront big issues of life, find power in community, and risk all to gain everything.

Full length musical
Book Katherine Nolan/Music/lyrics Gilbert & Sullivan/Orchestrations Eli Villanueva
The backstage world of the Savoy theatre is brought to life as four of the most popular Gilbert & Sullivan operas are highlighted through duets, arias, and ensemble pieces.  Full length musical.

Full length play
Inter-generational trauma. The immigrant experience. A howling wilderness of desert outside city borders. Fingers reach up through the past, touching three generations of women. Violence destroys intimacy, creates madness, turns love into hatred and hatred back into love.

Full length play
How far are you willing to go to further a cause you passionately believe in when your child’s well-being is at stake? Pasadena, California in the 1970’s was a template for what happens when fear of the Outsider is used for political gains. Three former student activists have grown up and are now confronting a decimated school district they may have helped to destroy. Full length play./

Sic Transit
\Short play
Have you ever wondered why the good die young, while the truly annoying seem to live on forever?  Have you ever hoped that living a virtuous life will better your odds of being happy and long-lived?  Have you ever considered how these fates are actually decided? Sic Transit deals with such delicious and unanswerable questions as a young man deals with the bureaucracy of his imminent demise.
Alliance of LA Playwrights award winner
with Pete Barry and Irene L Pynn

The Heart Tells Tales – Play reading
Jim and Huck – Play reading
The Ride (A Musical) – Concert reading
Merry Queerness: A wildly Inappropriate Holiday Show – Cabaret fundraiser
The Flirt Bar – LA workthrough and Atlanta concert reading
More info at www.artsalacarte.org

With Susan Lambert Hatem, produced three short plays, one of which I wrote/directed and another that I ended up performing in at the last minute. So much fun! Never again!

Lighting and tech liason
Fun show to make pretty. Beginning of killer teamwork with Susan Lambert Hatem. Theatre Americana, at Porticos Art Space.

Producer
Oversaw all tech aspects and ran two weekends at Soka Performing Arts center.

Production Manager
Full scale of Anoush by Armen Tigranian produced by Lark Musical Society. Performed at Pasadena’s Ambassador Auditorium.

Tech Director/Production Manager
Toured nationally with LA-based Gilbert & Sullivan opera company, advancing, managing crew, liaising with house crews, designing and implementing lighting, overseeing scenic elements, acted as Stage Manager and called shows. Drove the truck. Drank a lot of coffee.

Graphic novel (by Beau Lamour and K Nolan) based on a screenplay (by Beau L’Amour and K Nolan) based on an audio drama (by K Nolan) based on a short story by Louis L’Amour. Whew.
Produced by Charles Santino with artwork by Thomas Yates.
Published by Random House.
Translated into several languages!

From Goodreads: In Aphrodite in Jeans, Katherine Shirek Doughtie explores what happens when a woman stalemated in the middle of life dares to answer a call to live more fully. Whether discussing motherhood, working through relationships or taking care of an aging parent, these essays are in turn funny, poignant and challenging. With wicked insight and unflinch­ing courage, Ms. Doughtie ruthlessly examines her experiences as she dares to tackle life head on.

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Adventure tales as told from both front and back of a tandem bike for 530 miles on the AIDS/LifeCycle ride. It’s not pretty.
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Adventure tales about going through cancer treatment. It’s actually more fun than riding a tandem. KIDDING.
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Adventure tales about men, midlife, and motherhood.
Fun if you like a lot of self disclosure.
Goes along with the book.
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