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 [...]

Hi there, universe! You still exist! Lovely.
A few things have happened/are happening/will, in fact, happen in the next few weeks, so I thought I’d update this space with what’s happening:
- Development of this musical I’m writing with good folks Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth (two of the folks behind In Transit) is underway! A full [...]

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. [...]

The Fringe is over, and so is September but life (and plays) go on.
September was actually a surprisingly busy month for my work, including some very much fun opportunities:
- In early September, the good folks of Monster Literature banded together again to re-stage “Robin Hood:    Prince of…MONSTERS!”- this time at the Irondale Center as [...]

“The Conveniences of Modern Living” opened last Tuesday- and we’ve gotten some really great reviews out of it. Below is a little sampling of them. We’ve done 3 of our 4 shows, with the final show coming up this Saturday at Noon. I can’t believe it’s all about to be over- but it is! It’s [...]

In late November last year, my buddy Annie Levy commissioned me to develop an adaptation of “The Merchant of Venice” for a Jewish camp she works with in the woods of Wisconsin.
Last, week my adaptation- “Sharon is My Name”- went up!:

Take that, Pacino!
*Al Pacino ominously enters my blog entry*
Eh heh…Hey Al! Long time no see! [...]

Looks like being from Brooklyn counts for something in ink these days.
My NY Fringe show, “The Conveniences of Modern Living”, was very kindly featured earlier this week in the Brooklyn section of the NY Daily News:
You can go ahead and read the whole article here.
It started with, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if a man [...]

This just in: My dreams of coming in third is an internet contest have been realized.
I’m the third place winner in The Omniscient Mussel’s #operaplot twitter contest, where you summarize plots of great operas in 140 characters, and pack in as much snark as humanly possible.
Here’s my winning entry, a synopsis of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin:

So [...]