Kel Vance

Kel Vance

With a passion for writing for both stage and screen, Kel Vance studied at UTS Sydney, obtaining a Graduate Certificate in Screenwriting, a Graduate Diploma in Media Arts & Production and a Masters in Creative Writing.

Kel then became involved with the Short + Sweet Theatre Festival in Sydney in 2016, where her short play “The Shoebox” reached the Peoples' Choice Showcase before being...
With a passion for writing for both stage and screen, Kel Vance studied at UTS Sydney, obtaining a Graduate Certificate in Screenwriting, a Graduate Diploma in Media Arts & Production and a Masters in Creative Writing.

Kel then became involved with the Short + Sweet Theatre Festival in Sydney in 2016, where her short play “The Shoebox” reached the Peoples' Choice Showcase before being chosen by a director and performed in Dubai. “The Eulogy”, which debuted in the Hollywood Short + Sweet Festival in 2017, was taken on in Sydney by a new director in 2018 where it made it to the Gala Finals after taking out both the Judges' and Peoples' Choice in its performance week.

Her short play "Got You" was performed in September 2018 at the Short+Sweet Hollywood Theatre Festival, receiving both the Jury Award and Peoples' Choice for its program, going directly through to the Gala Finals in October 2018. "Got You" was also one of 8 winning plays performed in LA as part of "Exit Strategies" - International Ten Minute Plays Festival before it was performed with a collection of plays, written by women and directed by women in "Women In Australia: Stories of Courage" put on by Peach Productions as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival.

Kel's first completed full length play - 'The Deal' was shortlisted for the Silver Gull Play Award in 2019 and made the second round of the Austin Film Festival. Her short plays, "All The World Loves A Clown", "Homework" and "Vote 4 Me" have been performed near and far in Sydney, Bendigo, Dubai, Iowa, Los Angeles, Chennai and Perth. In 2020 and 2021 Kel's plays 'An Apple' and 'B Is For' were due to be performed in Sydney, however due to COVID19 these performances were cancelled. In the meantime Kel recently completed her short screenplays 'Bespoke' and 'The Apprentice' and well as her features 'Within An Echo' and 'Wrong Shade of Blue'. In 2022 Kel's second full length play 'Fake Plastic Trees' was Runner Up for the Edythe Brook Cooper National Playwriting Competition.

Kel also directed her first play "Shirely Vs. The Squirrels" by Camila Maxwell in 2015 at the Short+Sweet Theatre Festival Sydney, where it received the Peoples' Choice for its week, going through to the Wildcard Finals, where it was also voted by the audience through to the Gala Finals. Kel also directed her play the "The Shoebox" in 2016 where it made the Peoples' Choice Showcase and her short play "#NotAllMen" in 2017.

Plays

  • B Is For
    "B Is For..."

    Boobs! We all have them but for more than half the population, they're not just a part of our anatomy. While waiting to undertake life-changing surgery, Beth muses on the disposability of women. Of those who fail to meet societal standards of what womanhood is and should look like, leading Beth to imagine the possible reality of her post-surgery life and decide what...
    "B Is For..."

    Boobs! We all have them but for more than half the population, they're not just a part of our anatomy. While waiting to undertake life-changing surgery, Beth muses on the disposability of women. Of those who fail to meet societal standards of what womanhood is and should look like, leading Beth to imagine the possible reality of her post-surgery life and decide what womanhood might mean to her.

    You can find an online performance on YouTube by Holly Bodimeade for Scriptwriters & Co Spring Scatch Night 2023 - under the play's previous name: Homework.
  • Fake Plastic Trees
    It’s late at night amid a ferocious storm when Dana becomes trapped during a power outage. It doesn’t take long for her to discover that she’s not alone when she hears a stranger’s voice. Dana, feeling powerless and desperate to escape, soon comes to rely on the stranger for solace as the storm escalates and their predicament slowly becomes a matter of life and death.
  • All The World Loves A Clown
    Ten minutes: All the world loves a clown - right? Wrong. An old Clown at a kid’s birthday party hides in another room after scaring the kids and making them cry. An equally jaded and tired Princess joins him and tries to encourage him to get back in there.
  • Vote 4 Me
    Ten minutes: A political candidate practicing her maiden speech decides to tell voters what she truly stands for, much to the dismay of her politically savvy speechwriter.
  • The Deal
    Greta Gere, pregnant and with her life in turmoil, is determined to go through the pain of a public rape trial but when a another victim comes forward with explosive information, she starts to suspect her husband and best friend in being complicit in the horrific crimes against her.

    There's no right way to be a survivor.
  • Got You
    Ten minutes: Deb, dying and worried about what will happen to her ailing mum when she's gone, turns to her best mate, Naz, in an effort to come up with a plan that will ensure her mum's future is secure.

    Got You is currently being developed into a feature length screenplay.
  • The Eulogy
    Ten Minutes: A teenage boy learns how different his life could’ve been when the girl he never met, but loved from afar, begins to eulogise him.
  • #NotAllMen
    Ten Minutes: In the interrogation room of a police station an alleged victim and perpetrator give their wildly different versions of an encounter that took place earlier that evening.
  • The Shoebox
    Ten minutes: An angst ridden tween and war veteran develop an unlikely friendship over the mysterious contents of a shoebox.