Duane Kelly
BIO
DUANE KELLY, PLAYWRIGHT
www.duanekelly.net
2018 Working on a new play about assisted reproduction technology and another one about Hildegard of Bingen
WRITING
2018 Completed "Visiting Cezanne", a new play about Paul Cezanne
2016 Completed "Das Ende", a full-length play about Richard Wagner and his Ring opera cycle...
BIO
DUANE KELLY, PLAYWRIGHT
www.duanekelly.net
2018 Working on a new play about assisted reproduction technology and another one about Hildegard of Bingen
WRITING
2018 Completed "Visiting Cezanne", a new play about Paul Cezanne
2016 Completed "Das Ende", a full-length play about Richard Wagner and his Ring opera cycle.
2014 Completed "Escorting Tom", a full-length marital drama.
2011 Reconceived and rewrote "Rousseau and Hobbes", a play about the 1994 Rwandan genocide and primate field research first written in 1998. Had a public reading at ACT Theatre, Seattle.
2011 "Future Imperfect" was a finalist for 2011 Ashland New Plays Festival, Ashland, OR. 4 plays were chosen from 10 finalists, selected from 200 submissions.
2010 Launched "Lapis Loquens", a theatre-oriented blog which I continue to write and publish weekly. www.duanekelly.net
2010 Travelled to Rwanda and Uganda for two weeks of research as preparation for rewriting Rousseau and Hobbes.
2010 Completed "Future Imperfect", a full-length comedy about a family trying to unite after the mother’s death. Had public readings at id Theater (NY) Sept. 20 and at ACT Theatre (Seattle) June 17.
2010 "A Dying Wish" was a semifinalist for 2010 NAAA Double X Play Reading Festival, London, England. 400 scripts were submitted.
2010 "The Thing With Feathers" was a finalist for 2010 Ashland New Plays Festival, Ashland, OR. 4 plays were chosen from 10 finalists, selected from 200 submissions.
2010 "The Thing With Feathers" was a semifinalist selection for 2010 FutureFest new play festival, Dayton, OH. 6 plays were chosen from 12 semifinalists, selected from 390 submissions.
2010 "A Dying Wish" had a reading Feb. 15 at id Theater’s Sit In! reading series in New York
2009 "The Thing With Feathers" had a reading Nov. 11 at Lark Play Development Center in New York
2009 "The Thing With Feathers" was one of six plays developed at Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, June 8-21, in Idaho.
2009 "The Thing With Feathers" was a semifinalist selection for 2009 Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
2007 Completed "The Thing With Feathers", a full-length play about a Vietnam War vet fighting to save his failing coffee farm in Costa Rica.
2005 Wrote short story, "Pochta".
2003 Completed play "A Dying Wish", a full-length family drama.
2001 "Rousseau and Hobbes", as a result of a juried selection process, received a staged reading at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference with Edward Albee, in Alaska.
2001 "Rousseau and Hobbes", as a result of a juried selection process, received a staged reading at Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York. Reading was part of that theatre’s First Light Festival.
1999 Completed "Rousseau and Hobbes", a full-length play about genocide and primate research in Africa.
SERVICE
July 2015
Participated in the Dramatists Guild national conference in Chicago, including moderating panel on musicals developed at La Jolla Playhouse. Panelists Stephen Schwartz, Doug Wright, Amanda Green, Bobbie and Kristen Lopez, Christopher Ashley.
August 2013
Participated in the Dramatists Guild national conference in Chicago, including being interlocutor for discussion with David Ives about his playwriting career and the creation of Venus in Fur.
June 2011
Participated in the Dramatists Guild national conference in Virginia, including being interlocutor for discussion with Todd London (then Artistic Director of New Dramatists).
December 2009-present
Dramatists Guild regional representative for state of Washington
STAGE PRODUCTION
2003 Produced Equity production of Betrothal, written by Lanford Wilson
MEMBERSHIPS
Dramatists Guild
Theatre Puget Sound
BUSINESS CAREER
1988-2009
Founder and Chairman of Salmon Bay Events, a company that produced Northwest Flower & Garden Show and San Francisco Flower & Garden Show. Sold shows 2009 in order to focus more on writing.
CIVIC ACTIVITIES
2001-2006
Member of Board of Trustees, San Francisco Botanical Garden Society, a non-profit organization supporting San Francisco Botanical Garden (in Golden Gate Park).
Chaired Strategic Directions Committee.
2001-2002
Member of Board of Directors, American Horticultural Society (Alexandria, Virginia)
1991-1998
Member of Board of Directors, The Arboretum Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting Washington Park Arboretum, a 200-acre arboretum in Seattle; chaired various committees including Long-Range Planning Committee. Served as Foundation President 1993-1995.
EDUCATION
University of Washington, B.A. – English Literature, 1973