Hurricane Katrina has been featured in a number of works of fiction (as well as non-fiction). This article is an ongoing effort to list the many artworks, books, comics, movies, popular songs, and television shows that feature Hurricane Katrina as an event in the plot.
Waters Rising (2007), features criminal brothers from the
Desire Projects, whose lives are profoundly impacted by Hurricane Katrina and their evacuation to
Houston, Texas[1][2]
The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival, by
Rob Florence, premiered at the 2010
New York International Fringe Festival at SoHo Playhouse. The cast, directed by
Dann Fink and stage managed by
Christina Lowe, featured
Philip Hoffman,
Lizann Mitchell,
Maureen Silliman,
Evander Duck, and Gary Cowling. The play interweaves the stories of five individuals in
New Orleans during and after
Hurricane Katrina.[3][4] According to Time Out New York, the play focuses "on the kind of small anecdotes you might hear from a friend in your living room: politely amusing, occasionally moving, deliberately uplifting."[5]The New York Times' David Rooney compared the play's narrative approach to The Laramie Project, with the story told by each character "intertwined into a compelling chronicle,[6] The show extended, and was included in the New York International Fringe Festival's Encores Series, remounted at the Lucille Lortel Theatre with the original cast, director and designers reprising their roles.