Elizabeth M. Kelly

Elizabeth is a 2018 Woodward/Newman Award finalist The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist for Marionettes, and a 2017 Princess Grace Award semi-finalist and 2018 Blue Ink Award semi-finalist for Kitty, Cappy, Gypsy & Snake. She is a writer member of the Playwrights and Directors Unit at The Actor’s Studio and is a part of José Rivera's writer's group, as well as Dorset Theater Festival’s Women Artists Writing group. Her work for the stage has been seen/read at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center, Primary Stages, ESPA Detention at Jimmy’s No. 43, The Abingdon Theatre, The Drama League and Six Part Productions. She has two feature-length screenplays optioned, has contributed as an essayist to the magazine Lovers & Other Strangers, as well as, a...

Elizabeth is a 2018 Woodward/Newman Award finalist The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist for Marionettes, and a 2017 Princess Grace Award semi-finalist and 2018 Blue Ink Award semi-finalist for Kitty, Cappy, Gypsy & Snake. She is a writer member of the Playwrights and Directors Unit at The Actor’s Studio and is a part of José Rivera's writer's group, as well as Dorset Theater Festival’s Women Artists Writing group. Her work for the stage has been seen/read at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center, Primary Stages, ESPA Detention at Jimmy’s No. 43, The Abingdon Theatre, The Drama League and Six Part Productions. She has two feature-length screenplays optioned, has contributed as an essayist to the magazine Lovers & Other Strangers, as well as, a series for the Please Don’t Sue Us podcast. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. A New York based writer/actor, she’s worked in theater, film and television. Training primarily in performance, it is through that lens she’s sought out and learned from compelling writers; harnessing an actor’s interpretive skills as creative one. As a result of her father’s work in agriculture she’s moved upwards of twenty times and lived all over the U.S. and U.K., turning herself from “perpetual new girl,” to “accidental cultural anthropologist.” As such, she draws inspiration from being an outsider, couple that with classical training and a penchant for colloquialism, she aims to spin magical realism from the zeitgeist.