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KELLY YOUNGER is an award-winning playwright with work staged off-Broadway, in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, throughout the Midwest and South, as well as in Canada, England, and Ireland. He is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA Playwrights Unit, the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, The Dramatists Guild of America, and is on the Board of Governors for Los Angeles Stage Alliance who host the annual Ovation Awards.
New York’s Irish Repertory Theatre commissioned Younger to write the stage adaptation of the novel Banished Children of Eve by Peter Quinn, and it will appear off-Broadway mid-2010. He is also developing Rorschach, a full-length play about the famous Rorschach inkblot test. In addition, New Repertory Theatre in Boston is developing his full-length drama Tender with workshops and readings scheduled for 2009 and 2010. Select other works include: I Think You Think I Love You (Playscripts; Smith and Kraus anthology "Best Plays of 2005"); Forgive me, Father (JAC publishing); Lady Gregory’s Ingredients (JAC publishing), winner of the Ireland National Lady Gregory Playwriting Award; Off Compass, winner of the 2007 John Gassner New Play Award through SUNY Stony Brook; Once a Marine; Epiphany Cake; and Why Wyoming, Critics’ Choice Samuel French off-Broadway Festival. Several monologues from Younger’s plays appear in various anthologies, and an excerpt of Younger’s translation of Trojan Women appears in Beth Henley’s play Revelers (Dramatists Play Service). Born and raised in Los Angeles, Younger earned an MA in Classics at Loyola University Chicago and PhD in Drama Studies from University College Dublin in Ireland. He is currently an Associate Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University where he leads workshops in Playwriting and teaches courses in Dramatic Literature. Younger is managed by Washington Square Arts and Films in NY and represented by Creative Artists Agency in LA. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. CONTACT: Bruce Miller Washington Square Arts and Films 310 Bowery, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10012 212.253.0333 x36 Share on Facebook |
