DANIEL JOHN KELLEY

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 third in our series of videos is Jessica Love, who is playing The Dryer:

I originally saw Jessica many many moons ago when she played the lead in the Julliard workshop of Adam Symkowitz’s play Incendiary. I thought she was fantastic and thought “Wouldn’t it be awesome if she was in a play of mine?” [...]

As promised, here’s the second in the series of cast interviews for “The Conveniences of Modern Living” in the NY Fringe:

David Ian Lee was actually in two of my favorite shows in NYC last year- Universal Robots and Infectious Opportunity, so I kind of nerded out when he was able to come aboard this show. [...]