{"id":18900,"date":"2026-03-05T22:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/?page_id=18900"},"modified":"2026-03-05T22:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:06:39","slug":"kathryn-grody","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/client\/plays\/kathryn-grody\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathryn Grody"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Works written by Kathryn Grody:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNEXPECTED 3RD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Synopses:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unexpected 3rd &#8211; <em>Deep into her third and final act of being a person, award-winning theatre artist Kathryn Grody explores a surreal, devastating, and existentially hilarious potpourri of self-discoveries at 78 years young. As mother, actor, wife, grandmother, friend, and accidental influencer, Grody navigates the bewildering transition into elderhood \u2014 equal parts empowering and unnerving.\u00a0The Unexpected 3rd\u00a0is a humorous and heartfelt solo piece exploring the joys\u00a0 and challenges of becoming not quite old, but elder.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathryn Grody corrected the cosmic error of her Los Angeles birth by finding a home at New York\u2019s Public Theater almost 50 years ago, where Joe Papp and Gail Merrifield Papp became mentors for life. Her distinguished theatre career includes her Obie Award-winning\u00a0<em>The Marriage of Bette and Boo<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Top Girls<\/em>, and the Drama Desk Award-nominated\u00a0<em>A Mom\u2019s Life<\/em>, all at The Public;\u00a0<em>The Model Apartment<\/em>\u00a0(59E59 Theaters), and\u00a0<em>20th Century Blues<\/em>\u00a0(Signature Theatre). Her film credits include\u00a0<em>Reds<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Lemon Sisters<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>The Sunset Gang<\/em>\u00a0(with Uta Hagen) and\u00a0<em>The Execution of Private Slovik<\/em>\u00a0(with Martin Sheen) on television. Kathryn and her husband, Mandy Patinkin, became unlikely social media stars during the COVID-19 pandemic (4 million followers and counting on TikTok). She recorded Gail Merrifield Papp\u2019s memoir,\u00a0<em>Private\/Public: My Life with Joe Papp<\/em>\u00a0at The Public Theater for Audible in 2023, workshopped\u00a0<em>The Unexpected 3rd<\/em>\u00a0at People\u2019s Light in 2024, and recently filmed the shorts\u00a0<em>Wooly Bully<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Double Happiness<\/em>. A Usual Suspect with New York Theatre Workshop, she is on the boards of Dances For A Variable Population and Downtown Women for Change, and is an ambassador with the International Rescue Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Works written by Kathryn Grody: UNEXPECTED 3RD Synopses: Unexpected 3rd &#8211; Deep into her third and final act of being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":495,"menu_order":129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18900","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18901,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18900\/revisions\/18901"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}