DANIEL JOHN KELLEY

Semester one of my graduate school experience is finished, and I have a shiny new play to show for it. Thanks Tina Howe!
The play is Wall, Ball, Summer And Fall (a Coney Island Adventure), and it’s a 100 minute comedic drama about Coney Island Handball and how one finds one’s place in the world. It’s [...]

In exciting news, a few weeks ago the editor of Nytheatre.com, Martin Denton, asked to include The Conveniences of Modern Living in a new project of his:
The project is called “Indie Theatre Now”, and it’s a digital library of new American plays, produced in New York, as part of the self-producing Indie Theatre scene. This [...]

It’s official: I’m one of four playwrights accepted into the second year of Tina Howe’s playwriting MFA at Hunter College. The deposit is paid, the GRE is taken, and I start in September!
The other three folks I’m going with are: Rob Cardazone, Kristen Palmer, and Lindsey Ferrentino. We all met over a non-lunch and several [...]

Coming up in May, my short play “More Wondrous Things” will be performed as part of “The Flash Plays: City To City” by the  Special Sauce Co.
I love the concept of these shows: it’s a 3 week festival of 5 minute plays, performed in site specific locations, and occurring without warning. Is it a play? [...]

Fun news- Monster Literature lives!
The Children’s Museum of Manhattan has asked the good folks behind “Monster Literature” to bring the series in for their Spring Break Arts Festival. We’ll be remounting “The Secret Garden…OF MONSTERS!” on Saturday April 23rd, for two shows at 2PM & 3PM.
This is the first time we’ve been asked to take [...]

Another fun thing is on the horizon- a number of excellent folks (the folks behind Theatre In A Van, in fact) have put together an evening of short plays by the likes of Daniel Talbott, Maya Macdonald, Dan Moyer and yours truly, in addition to several others.
It’s all going up site specifically in an apartment [...]

So following the previous reading of “Sharon Is My Name” , the good people of The Poet’s Art Theatre liked it so much that they gave us a theatre to do another, bigger reading of the play. This one can fit more people, so we’re inviting more people- and you should definitely come:
The Poet’s Art [...]

As I mentioned before, my play “Sharon Is My Name”- an adaptation of “The Merchant of Venice” which I was commissioned to do last year, and which I’ve been developing this year is being read on Monday. It’s certainly a work in progress, but if you want to, come along! Here are the details:
SHARON IS [...]

As the holidays grow near and 2010 comes to a close, I thought I’d post a bit here about all the (artisitical) stuff I’m grateful for in the past year:
- I’m grateful for the incredible group of folks that helped stage 3 preposterously awesome episodes of Monster Literature, starting in February and going into June. [...]

Been busy, all holed up, writing some musicals and some plays, like I do. Working a big re-write for my musical about the bubonic plague, as well as a new musical with some of the folks behind “In Transit”, and I’ve been starting new play, in which a 70 year old Groucho Marx is a [...]