Kaine Riggan
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Kaine Riggan (born David Kaine Riggan on December 11, 1974, in Henderson, North Carolina, United States) is an American playwright and development consultant.
Biography[edit]
The first play Riggan wrote was the musical Could It Be Love, which premiered in 2004 in Nashville at The Keeton Theatre. It starred Jeannie Seely and Helen Cornelius and enjoyed critical acclaim regionally and played the Ryman Auditorium in 2008. Riggan wrote both the book and the score for this story, which followed a group of community actors attempting to mount an all-senior version of Grease. His second play A Scattered, Smothered & Covered Christmas saw a 2007 debut in Nashville at Opryland's Acuff Theatre. Set in a Waffle House on Christmas Eve, the musical comedy featured a book by Riggan and original music by Randy Travis, T. Graham Brown and other top Nashville songwriters. Recent productions have included the addition of TV icon Joyce DeWitt as the waitress Rita and a crowd-favorite Kay Gobbell as Peggy Inscoe, a role that was written for Gobbell.[1] The musical was most recently filmed for further development in 2018 with DeWitt and Gobbell in the lead roles at McGregor Hall in the playwright's hometown.[2]
In 2005, MTV executive Matt Farber asked Riggan to develop a sitcom for his new cable channel, LOGO. He wrote treatments and screenplays for the first four episodes of "Thank You for Sisters", set backstage at a drag show. While the show never made it out of development for the young network, Riggan produced the shows as a serial theatrical season in Nashville and they enjoyed critical acclaim and box office success.[3]
As a business man, Riggan founded the Senior Center for the Arts, Inc. in 2003 as the nation's first first multi-disciplined arts center for senior adults and ran it for the first five years. He renovated a historic building on Printer's Alley and opened it in 2010 as The Nashville Dinner Theatre.[4]
Riggan has served as Director of Performing Arts for the Tennessee Arts Commission, managed large venues like the Royal Palace Theatre and Temple Theatre and serves a grant panelist for state and federal agencies. He married an Indonesian named Sopian in 2015 and they live in Queens, New York, and on Kerr Lake.
Works[edit]
Plays and screenplays[edit]
- Could It Be Love?
- Thank You for Sisters
- A Scattered, Smothered & Covered Christmas
- Jim Bakker's Heaven
- Assisted Living
- The Boys from Battery Park
References[edit]
- ↑ Ellis, Jeffrey (January 5, 2011). "A Scattered, Smothered & Covered Christmas" (2011) Review/Stage; BWW Reviews: A Scattered, Smothered and Covered Christmas at Nashville Dinner Theatre". Broadway World.
- ↑ "The Waffle House Christmas Musical featuring Joyce DeWitt". McGregor Hall.
- ↑ "Riggan Goes from Opry Office to Nashville Stages". backstage.com. 23 June 2006.
- ↑ "Kaine Riggan's original Christmas musical set in a Waffle House christens Nashville Dinner Theatre's new downtown digs". NashvilleScene.com. 11 November 2010.
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- 1974 births
- 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
- Gay writers
- Gay actors
- LGBT writers from the United States
- LGBT screenwriters
- LGBT people from North Carolina
- Male actors from North Carolina
- Stage directors from North Carolina
- LGBT dramatists and playwrights
- American male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century American male writers
- People from Henderson, North Carolina
