The Orlando Shakespeare Theatre will present a staged reading of Once a Marine as part of PlayFest! The Harriet Lakes Festival of New Plays. Richard Perez of Chicago Dramatists will direct and the festival keynote speaker will be Philip Seymour Hoffman.



Kelly interviewed by Adam Szymkowicz about his latest projects and career. Click here to read the interview.

Boston's New Repertory Theatre will develop Younger's new full-length play Tender as part of their 2010 New Voices @ New Rep series. Bridget Kathleen O'Leary will direct the workshop in November and the staged reading in March.



New York's Irish Repertory Theatre has commissioned Younger to adapt the epic novel Banished Children of Eve by Peter Quinn for their main-stage. Drama Desk nominated Ciaran O'Reilly recently directed a premiere reading on Friday 5 June with Fred Applegate (Happiness, Young Frankenstein), David Wilson Barnes (Becky Shaw, The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Muiris Crowley (The Yeats Project), Mark Hartman (Avenue Q, Finian's Rainbow), Michelle Hurst ("SherryBaby," The Story), Nicola Murphy (The Yeats Project), Aaron Shaw ("In Treatment") and Tracie Thoms (10 Things To Do Before I Die, Rent). Click Irish Rep. Covered in Playbill, BroadwayWorld, and Theatre Mania.



Kelly's short comedy The Can Can appears in the new Smith and Kraus anthology The Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More Actors.




World Premiere Weekend recently produced Don't You (Forget About Me) in their festival which included new works by playwrights Neil LaBute and Charles Mee.

Younger’s play Rorschach, a new time-bending romantic comedy about life, love, and inkblots, is currently in negotiation. Director Cameron Watson is attached.




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



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.


“Stop me if you've heard this one.”
Kelly Younger
Los Angeles, Calif



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Washington Square Arts and Films
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