KELLY YOUNGER is an award-winning playwright with work staged off-Broadway, in Los Angeles, Chicago, throughout the Midwest and South, as well as in Canada, England, and Ireland. He has developed work with Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, New Repertory Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, and The Blank, among others. New York’s Irish Repertory Theatre commissioned Younger to write the stage adaptation of Peter Quinn’s novel Banished Children of Eve, the production of which ran off-Broadway Fall 2010. He is also developing the comedy In the Fold (finalist for the Joanne Woodward/Paul Newman Drama Award), and the drama Tender, an earlier version of which received a developmental production at Gloucester Stage. Select other works include: Once a Marine, PlayFest 2010, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre; I Think You Think I Love You (Playscripts); Forgive me, Father (JAC publishing); Lady Gregory’s Ingredients (JAC publishing), winner of Ireland’s National Lady Gregory Playwriting Award; Off Compass, winner of the John Gassner New Play Award, and Why Wyoming, Critics’ Choice Samuel French off-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). He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. Younger is managed by Washington Square Arts and Films in NY and represented by The Gersh Agency in LA and NY.

CONTACT:

Bruce Miller
Washington Square Arts and Films
310 Bowery, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012
212.253.0333 x36



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