Kenneth Cavander's writing for television, stage plays, adaptations and translations have been widely performed both in the U.S. and abroad. In the U.S. he has been represented on Broadway and at many regional theatres, including the Guthrie Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where he was a founding director of The Second Company, and New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre. In the U.K. his works have been presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company and London’s Mermaid Theatre. His writing for television includes award-winning documentaries, dramatic series and specials for the BBC, ITV, and PBS, and movies of the week for CBS and NBC.
For a complete list of Kenneth Cavander’s credits in all media, including theatre, film and television, television documentaries, translations from the Greek classics, and journalism, please click on the following link: Read More »
New screenplays and theatre pieces in development as well as previous projects updated and
reimagined for a wider audience.
Television & Film
Hot Pursuit
Television & Film
Hot Pursuit
When a packet of old love letters is discovered the results are tumultuous and uproarious for two generations of a bickering but loving family. Read More »
Phillis and the Tea Party
In pre-Revolutionary America, two teenage girls, one white, the other black, conspire to prove that true genius knows no color bar. Based on a true story. (Monterey County Film Commission Artistic Talent Award). Read More »
Forever Wild
Escapees from a wilderness boot camp find more than they bargained for in the Great Outdoors when they run into a pair of cold-blooded bank robbers. Read More »
Miles
An eccentric billionaire and obsessive thrill seeker pulls off the stunt of a lifetime involving a reclusive movie star and her precocious twelve-year old daughter. Read More »
THEATRE
ANTIGONE, by Sophokles
A new translation from the original Greek text, adapted for a 21st century audience - world premiere to be presented by the Westport Playhouse in October, 2020.
Home Sweet Home
A comedy in two acts. Seven characters have their secret lives exposed and somehow survive, barely. Read More »
Threesome
Three one act plays in which well-laid plans turn the tables on their begetters. Read More »
Don’t Think - Do
A play in two acts. A couple celebrating the anniversary of their engagement find that the restaurant of their choice is a door into an alternate reality. Read More »
Decameron Nights
A bitter-sweet musical (music by Richard Peaslee), based on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, in which a group of young people, strangers to each other, are thrown together when they try to escape a deadly plague. Each has a story to tell, and in these stories - beguiling, romantic, farcical, wildly satirical tales - they reveal more than they mean to about themselves. Read More »
The Curse of Oedipus
A play in two acts. Combining original material together with elements from the surviving legends about the famous hero, some well known, some less so, this new work weaves a compelling political drama out of the ancient myths. Two Olympian Gods mingle with the action, providing cynical and exasperated commentary on the ill-fated mortals. (2015 nomination by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle for Playwriting.) Read More »
The Poor of New York
A play in two acts. This updated version of Boucicault’s fast-paced 1857 melodrama featuring a villainous banker. a wise-cracking shady subordinate, a heroine who suffers nobly, and a raging inferno in Brooklyn Heights, is right on target for Wall Street today. Read More »
Agamemnon and His Daughters
A play in two acts. The story of the Commander in Chief of the Greek forces in the Trojan War and the bloody aftermath of the sacrifice of his daughter for the sake of an ill-conceived campaign, leading in the end to a miraculous resolution, re-imagined for a post-9/11 audience. Read More »
Theatre - Family Audiences
The Life of Aesop
Everybody knows Aesop’s Fables. But who knows anything about the man who created them, Aesop himself? This award-winning play tells that story. Read More »
Tanglewood Tales
Updated version (music by Richard Peaslee) of three famous Greek myths as retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, giving them - as Hawthorne did in his day - a contemporary spin. Read More »
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
Opera in one act. A traditional tale from the Arthurian Cycle, adapted by composer Richard Peaslee and librettist Kenneth Cavander, in the form of an accessible music drama combining sorcery, romance, and suspense. Read More »
The Children’s Crusade
(Music by Richard Peaslee) Based on contemporary accounts from 1212 AD, when a charismatic teenage boy, Stephen, claimed to have received instructions from a mysterious ‘Pilgrim’ to collect as many of the children of Europe as he could and lead them on a Crusade. The original New York production was hailed as “a giant step” from traditional family fare. Read More »