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Christopher Kyle is a New York-based screenwriter and playwright whose works include K-19: The Widowmaker and The Monogamist. Full bio here.
Current Projects/News (site updated 6/30/08) An interview with Broken Watch Theatre Company's artistic director, Drew DeCorleto, has been posted on broadwayworld.com. The theatre is losing its space as of June 30th and the article is sobering tale of how difficult it is to maintain a theatre company in the current Manhattan real estate market. There is also some background on BWTC's history. Check it out. Dirt Archaeology (working title) is a stage play commissioned by Playwrights Horizons and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a longstanding supporter of plays about science and technology. The play will examine the life of an anthropologist who has spent his career trying to demolish the prevailing theory about the peopling of the Americas.
 The Interpretation of Murder is a screenplay adaptation of the bestselling novel by Jed Rubenfeld. It's a twisty whodunit set in 1909, during Sigmund Freud's only visit to the United States. The book has a great interactive website with information on Freud and New York City in 1909. The film version is set up with Warner Brothers and producer Paula Weinstein. The Safety Net is in print and can be ordered from the Samuel French website. Dark Highway is an original screenplay, a supernatural thriller about a man chased down the back roads of the midwest by a ghost from his past. Negotiations with financing partners are nearly complete and producer Joni Sighvatsson plans to start filming in 2008, with Gary McKendry, Oscar-nominated for his short film Everything in This Country Must, set to direct. Some of Gary McKendry's work can be viewed here. Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut, a completely re-edited and vastly improved version of the movie with 45 minutes of additional footage, is now available. On a video that's part of the official website, Oliver Stone says he has finally made the epic movie he originally intended. Further information about the new version is available on Oliver's Alexander Revisited myspace page and in reviews by the DVD Movie Guide and obsessedwithfilm. Past Projects The Safety Net, a play by Christopher Kyle. Premiered 2005 at the Michael Weller Theatre. Produced by Broken Watch Theatre Company. A drama about a lawyer who becomes entangled with his late brother's girlfriend. Directed by Martha Banta. Starring Jason Pugatch, Tinashe Kajese, Eva Kaminsky, Maren Perry, Peggy Scott, Mark Setlock.  Alexander, written by Oliver Stone and Christopher Kyle and Laeta Kalogridis. Released 2004. The epic story of Alexander the Great. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer, Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto.
 K-19: The Widowmaker, story by Louis Nowra, screenplay by Christopher Kyle. Released 2002. Based on the true story of a nuclear accident on a Russian submarine in 1961. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Starring Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard.
The Weight of Water, screenplay by Alice Arlen and Christopher Kyle. Released 2000. Based on the novel by Anita Shreve about a 19th century murder and the present-day woman who becomes obsessed with it. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Starring Sean Penn, Elizabeth Hurley, Josh Lucas, Sarah Polley, Catherine McCormack. Plunge, a play by Christopher Kyle. Premiered 1997 at Playwrights Horizons. A comedy about a reunion of college friends that is upended by an uninvited guest. Directed by Ron Lagomarsino. Starring Jessica Hecht, Bruce Norris, Frederick Weller, Ashley Crow, Taylor Nichols. Published by Dramatists Play Service. The Monogamist, a play by Christopher Kyle. Premiered 1995 at Playwrights Horizons. A comedy about a marriage that's shattered when both partners pursue affairs with the younger generation. Directed by Scott Elliott. Starring Arliss Howard, Lisa Emery, Timothy Olyphant, Chelsea Altman, Caroline Seymour. Published by American Theatre magazine and Dramatists Play Service. Boca, a play by Christopher Kyle. Professional premiere at Charlotte Repertory Theatre. A black comedy about an adopted man's picaresque journey to meet his birth parents in Florida. Directed by Steve Umberger. Starring Angus MacLachlan, Brian Taylor, Christina Zorich, Mary Lucy Bivins, Randell Haynes, Rebecca Koon, Duke Ernsberger, Barbi Van Shaick. Winner of the Stanley Drama Award. Homicide: Life on the Streets. Teleplays by Christopher Kyle appeared in season five ("Diener") and season six ("Closet Cases"). |
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