Kelly is a Dagenham Girl and Essex Playwright. She was the winner of the BBC Drama Award in 2014. She has recently completed the Emerging Playwrights Program at The Bush Theatre. Kelly has a passion for community and social change projects, particularly with the LGBTQ community and her queer identity is very important to her work. She runs a Queer Arts Collective.
Represented by: Nick Quinn, The Agency
AWARDS:
Drama Award (NTW/BBC WALES, BBC WRITERSROOM)
Winner 2014
THEATRE CREDITS:
NO PLACE FOR A GIRL (No Boundaries Theatre), A THOUSAND WAYS (The Other Room Cardiff), SNOUT (Oran Mor/Sherman Theatre), THE PEOPLES PLATFORM(Common Wealth Theatre/National Theatre Wales), TAMMY Rehearsed Reading (Sherman Theatre/ National Theatre Wales), HUMANEQUINN (Mess Up the Mess Theatre Company/ Trans Cymru),
THE DROWNED GIRL (The Yard Theatre/Birmingham Rep), BLUD (The Other Room Cardiff/OtherMother), TIARA Play developed whilst ‘Writer-in-Residence’ at Theatr Clwyd, 14 COPY Seed commission (National Theatre Wales)
TV:
BRLY GRLS - In development
(BAD WOLF)
SHORTS:
HERE YOU COME AGAIN (Dirty Protest), LOVE (The Other Room Cardiff)
Part of Young Artists Festival, A STEAL (Dirty Protest /Artes Mundi, HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOU (Sherman Cymru) Part of Sherman Swingers, FIGHT LESS ORDINARY (Breakwater Theatre Company, Grimsby, HEAVY METAL HAZED AND DEPERADO DRUNK (Music Theatre Wales/RWCMD)
IN DEVELOPMENT:
TAMMY (Dirty Protest, The Statistical Probability of Lightening Striking twice (The Bush), Shop Girl (Hull Truck), Extinct (Festival Of Voice) A THOUSAND WAYS (The Other Room)-