Kelly M Jones

 

Kelly Jones is a Playwright from Dagenham.  She was the winner of the BBC Drama Award in 2014. She has recently completed the Emerging Playwrights Program at The Bush Theatre. Currently on Hightide's Playwrights cohort and Mercury Theatre's Essex Voices and BBC DRAMA ROOM 20/21. Kelly writes about queerness, class and her relationship to home. 

 

Represented by: Maeve Bolger and Hannah Boulton at The Agency 

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AWARDS:

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Drama Award (NTW/BBC WALES, BBC WRITERSROOM) Winner 2014

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THEATRE CREDITS: 

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ROOM TO ESCAPE 

(National Theatre Wales, BBC Arts, Theatr Genedllaethol)

COMMA

(Sherman Theatre- TEN )

GARDEN PARADISO

(Mercury Theatre & Weinburger Publishing) 

GIRL IN THE MIRROR 

(ChippyLane Podcast – Series 2)

TAMMY 

(Reading – Essex On Stage – Queens Theatre Hornchurch)

HUMANEQUINN

(MessUp The Mess/ Trans Cymru/ WMC) 

SNOUT

(Oran Mor/Sherman Theatre)

THE PEOPLES PLATFORM 

(Common Wealth Theatre/National Theatre Wales)

BLUD 

(The Other Room Cardiff/OtherMother)

THE DROWNED GIRL

(The Yard Theatre/Birmingham Rep) 

TIARA Play developed whilst ‘Writer-in-Residence’ at Theatr Clwyd

14 COPY Seed commission (National Theatre Wales)

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TV:

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 BURLY GIRLS _ In development 

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SHORTS:

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MERRY FUCKING XMAS KIDS

(Theatre 503) 

LOOK I’M MELTING 
(Paine’s Plough Roundabout / Dirty Protest) 

The Crease (Iris Prize) 

LOVE (The Other Room Cardiff)

HEAVY METAL HAZED AND DEPERADO DRUNK (Music Theatre Wales/RWCMD)

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IN DEVELOPMENT:

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MY Mother's Funeral: The Show

THANK YOU, GOODNIGHT

(Wales Millennium Centre) 

BUMP 

THE CREASE
(Iris on Stage)

BOOKIES

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