New York's Irish Repertory Theatre has commissioned Younger to adapt the epic novel Banished Children of Eve by Peter Quinn for their upcoming main-stage season. Drama Desk nominated Ciaran O'Reilly will direct.




Younger’s latest play Rorschach, a new time-bending romantic comedy about life, love, and inkblots, received a New York premiere reading off-Broadway at the Theatre Row Theatres on April 7.




Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women includes two monologues by Kelly and is available now from Playscripts Publishers.



Younger’s latest play Rorschach, a new comedy about life, love, and inkblots, received a premiere reading at the Barnelle Theatre for the Playwrights Center Stage series. It starred Mike Goorjian (Party of Five, Salt Lake City Punks), Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother), Ron Marasco (Lost, Nip/Tuck), Mary O’Malley and Brian Shuff. Ron Marasco directed and the play has been nominated for the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award through the Kennedy Center.

2005: Best Ten Minute Plays now available from Smith and Kraus Publishers includes Kelly's award-winning I Think You Think I Love You.



Three Graces Theatre Company, in association with Love Creek Productions, produced "Merrily, Merrily" from Why Wyoming for the 32nd Annual Samuel French Short Play Festival in New York at the American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street. The play was declared the Critics' Choice winner!



The Dramatists Guild of America published an article about Kelly's writing career and life as a professional playwright in the latest issue of their nationally circulated The Dramatist Magazine. To download and read it in PDF format, click on the article's title: “L.A. Confidential”.



Kelly's full-length play Off Compass won the John Gassner New Play Award from Stony Brook University in New York. As a finalist, the play received a reading before an audience and panel of judges during the first week of November. It was then named the winner and went on to receive a production in March at the Staller Center Theatre. Special thanks to director Steve Marsh and dramaturg Kristin Vieira.


I Think You Think I Love You is now available through Playscripts, Inc. in New York. Their advisory board includes David Henry Hwang, Tony Kushner, Terrence McNally, Harold Prince, and Neil Simon. Kelly is honored to be in such company!




We have a winner! Guess who won The New Yorker cartoon caption contest? So far, over 1,000,000 people have participated in the weekly humor competition. The framed original is signed by artist Leo Cullum and hangs proudly in the Younger home.


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