katharine clark grayplaywright, etc.
katharine clark grayDon’t call her a ghostwriter. Annalee is a professional term paper auteur, able to mimic any student’s voice on the page. But she meets a special challenge when Sigurd, a grad student in Media Studies, hires her to work for him exclusively. She’ll be doing his “chore” assignments while he focuses on his mysterious thesis. The two become lovers, embroiled in a relationship with very movable boundaries. When one betrayal leads to another, they must both confront Sigurd’s unyielding professor, Martie Hodge. They strike a deal saving Sigurd from expulsion and Annalee from prosecution, but Martie is exacting in her price.
Driven inexorably forward by pride, desire, and intellectual longing, Annalee, Sigurd and Martie grapple with the truth as much as each other and discover to what lengths a person will go to find her true voice. 516 (five sixteen) is a revenge romance for brainiacs, a mash note to the mind.
"Truth and lies take on new dimensions in Katharine Clark Gray's thought-provoking new drama... FOUR STARS" - Time Out New York
"Katharine Clark Gray has an excellent, intuitive handle on the nature of dialogue and what makes it work in a play... worthy of inclusion in any list of academic satire." - Lingual Tremors
"[E]xciting, dark and brainy. I'd love to see it off the page." - Jennifer O'Reilly, The Villager
