McKelvey Courtney Collins

McKelvey Courtney Collins is a playwright, choreographer, and stage manager from Lexington, Virginia, currently based in New York City. She holds a BFA from the New School for Drama. Her original plays include Depths of the Valley (IRT Theater) (also co-director, producer, choreographer, costume designer) and Jack Mormon (the New School) (also director, producer, costume designer). Previous stage management experience includes Ted Bundy’s Volkswagen (IRT Theater), Project: Library (Spark Theatre Festival), Trophy Boys (The Tank), Later Life (Katonah Classic Stage), Given Circumstances (the New School), Red Bike (the New School), and MFA New Visions Festival (the New School). Previous choreography works include the Identity and Present Expressions Concerts (Halestone Dance Studio).

McKelvey Courtney Collins is a playwright, choreographer, and stage manager from Lexington, Virginia, currently based in New York City. She holds a BFA from the New School for Drama. Her original plays include Depths of the Valley (IRT Theater) (also co-director, producer, choreographer, costume designer) and Jack Mormon (the New School) (also director, producer, costume designer). Previous stage management experience includes Ted Bundy’s Volkswagen (IRT Theater), Project: Library (Spark Theatre Festival), Trophy Boys (The Tank), Later Life (Katonah Classic Stage), Given Circumstances (the New School), Red Bike (the New School), and MFA New Visions Festival (the New School). Previous choreography works include the Identity and Present Expressions Concerts (Halestone Dance Studio).

Scripts

Changeling

Written by McKelvey Courtney Collins

Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale,
horror,
tragedy

Still reeling from their recent breakup, Peter and Natalie attempt to prove that they can still be friends as they embark on a trip to the mountains. But vacationing with your ex is easier said than done, and the strange sounds outside their cabin aren’t helping…

Still reeling from their recent breakup, Peter and Natalie attempt to prove that they can still be friends as they embark on a trip to the mountains. But vacationing with your ex is easier said than done, and the strange sounds outside their cabin aren’t helping…

Jack Mormon

by McKelvey Courtney Collins

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
fantasy,
satire

After a freak accident involving a nail gun and a stepladder, unassuming college professor Jack Davis ends up in a heaven made for and populated by Mormons, which comes as a shock to a self-described bad Catholic. Jack must deal with a college ex, an impressionable missionary, and supernatural hijinks as he embarks on a mission to discover just how he ended up here, and to convert his staunchly atheist wife...

After a freak accident involving a nail gun and a stepladder, unassuming college professor Jack Davis ends up in a heaven made for and populated by Mormons, which comes as a shock to a self-described bad Catholic. Jack must deal with a college ex, an impressionable missionary, and supernatural hijinks as he embarks on a mission to discover just how he ended up here, and to convert his staunchly atheist wife Heather to Mormonism so she can join him in the afterlife.

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Depths of the Valley

Written by McKelvey Courtney Collins

Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
fable/folktale,
horror,
movement/physical,
tragedy

Depths of the Valley follows estranged siblings Alice, Riah, and Nadia who are reunited by the death of their father. In returning to their childhood home they revisit the secrets and abuse that has scarred their past and present. With tensions already at a boiling point, the arrival of Bo, Alice’s fiancé, and Hayden, his little sister, sends things over the edge.

Depths of the Valley follows estranged siblings Alice, Riah, and Nadia who are reunited by the death of their father. In returning to their childhood home they revisit the secrets and abuse that has scarred their past and present. With tensions already at a boiling point, the arrival of Bo, Alice’s fiancé, and Hayden, his little sister, sends things over the edge.