Keywords:
Kate Mailer, father-daughter relationship, Mailer family, memory and autobiography, Provincetown, keynote address
Abstract
Norman Mailer’s daughter gives the keynote address at the 2015 Norman Mailer Society conference in Provincetown.
Author Biography
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Kate Mailer
Kate Mailer is a writer/performer of monologues, short stories, plays and memoir pieces. Most recently, she performed sections of her one woman show “Grecian Fever” at West Bank Café and West Beth Theater. She has also performed other solo pieces and comedy acts, including “Stories of a Basketcase: Sandy Boundary-Less” and “The Sister Collage” at a variety of venues including Cornelia St Café, The Miranda Theater and Ensemble Studio Theater. She most recently published an essay, “Identity Thief” in More Magazine and “The Knife’s Edge” a memoir of her father, in The Mailer Review. As an actress, she has worked in a variety of theaters, including Brooklyn Academy of Music, Actor’s Studio, Arklight Theater, as well as in films. She also secretly loves to do art and lives in a colorful, chaotic apartment with her husband, Guy Lancaster, and their daughter, Natasha Annabelle.