Review Fix Fresh Fruit Festival Coverage: Talks Joe Breen Talks ‘All My Love, Kate’

July 10, 2018 Patrick Hickey Jr. Theatre 0

Review Fix chats with Joe Breen, who discusses his production at this year’s Fresh Fruit Festival in New York City, detailing the creative process and letting us know what to expect.

About ‘All My Love, Kate’


7/10   8 pm, 7/14  8:30 pm, 7/15  3 pm    (95′)  World Premiere

For years, Jack and Danny have lived quietly and privately, keeping their life together separate from the world outside their door. But after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the couple finds themselves separated by an ocean, a war, and a world that would rather pretend they didn’t exist. What does it mean to be a patriot? When you have to sign your love letters with someone else’s name, how do you fight for your country? A love story told across miles, memories, and dreams.

Review Fix: What was the inspiration for this project?

Joe Breen: I read an incredible book by Allen Berube, called, “Coming Out Under Fire: the History of Gay Men and Women in WW2”. The idea of someone having to, not only hide their true-self, but create a fictitious self to share with the people that they’re living, fighting, and dying beside—it really spoke to me. It moved me.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Breen: It really does change with each project. The writing of “All My Love, Kate” involved a lot of swing music, late-nights, red wine, and pacing.


Review Fix: What makes this different or special?

Breen: Not only is this “Kate’s” very first production, but it is also my Directorial debut. The director I had been working with was unavailable for the summer, and rather than discuss finding someone new to bring in, I decided to just jump in and tackle it myself! And it has absolutely been an incredible experience.

Review Fix: What did you learn about yourself through this process?

Breen: That I too often underestimate myself…. I’m someone who sort of lives in that self-denigrating, “I don’t know what I’m doing/ everyone is judging me/ this will probably be an abject failure”, sort of place. But I’ve been leaving rehearsal every night thinking—“Huh. I’m doing it.”

Review Fix: What are your ultimate goals for this production and for the future?

Breen: Ultimately I just want to find a home for these characters. A theatre that loves them, and believes in their story.  Somewhere that wants to help them thrive.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Breen: I’m currently working on a new play, something very different than anything I’ve written before…. But still with a little 1930s class thrown in.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14262 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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