Kathy Rucker's play, SULTAN’S BATTERY, is a mystical whodunnit. Ray, a naive young American, has arrived in India to deliver a one-of-a-kind statue of the Virgin Mary to a religious festival in the town of Sultan's Battery. Unfortunately, someone has stolen Mary. What follows is a series of events involving love, religion, faith, mice, uncooperative clocks and a certain elephant-headed God.
Whitmore-Lindley Theatre
11006 Magnolia Blvd
North Hollywood, CA
September 24 - October 17, 2010
Directed by Cody Goulder and Marisa Rojas
MIRA Geeta Malik
OFFICER PRABU Karthik Srinivasan
RAY Liam Toner
MARY Kimi Buser
GANESH Daniel Armas
JALU Sabiha Sultana
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BIOGRAPHY
Kathy Rucker's first play, Beautiful Scar, was a finalist for the Heideman Award at the 2004 Humana Festival Ten-Minute Play Contest. Her next play, Chop Shop, earned her an invitation to the Sewanee Writers Conference at the University of the South where she developed the play with Romulus Linney and Dan O’Brien.
In 2005, she was a member of the San Francisco Bay Area theatre company, Playground.
In 2008, she completed a full-length, six-character play titled Sultan's Battery. This play was selected for participation in the Great Plains Theatre Conference in Omaha, Nebraska in May 2009 and also the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in June 2009. Sultan's Battery was a finalist in the New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest. In 2010, the play was nominated for the London Fringe Festival Theatre Writing Award. The play had its world premier in Los Angeles.
In 2010, Ms. Rucker's play, Turing Tested, was selected for participation in the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska.
Kathy Rucker is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, with a degree in French and Art History.