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KELLY DUMAR
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Kelly DuMar is a Boston area Playwright, PsychoDramatist, Playback Theatre artist & Workshop Facilitator with her Master's Degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of education and her B.A., from the University of Mass. at amherst. Her plays have been produced around the US and Toronto, including: Selected Play Credits - Winner of the Susan McIntyre Play Festival, Kelly's full-length play, Weekend at the Dreaming Cloud, had a workshop production at Yellow Taxi, Nashua, NH, as well as two-evenings of readings with the Nora Theatre as a New Play selection, Cambridge; (also a finalist in the John Gassner New Play Festival, Stony Brook Univ., NY & the Boston Actors Theatre). Four monologues from her one-woman show in process, eNVIa!, were produced by the Playwrights' Platform annual Festival, Boston 2009; three were produced by the New Ideas Festival, alumnae Theatre, TORONTO, in March 2010. Kelly's short comedy, No Strings, was presented in two recent Boston festivals and was presented as a staged reading by the URNetwork alliance in Manhattan, 2010; four selections from her one-act children's play, the adventures of Rocky & Skye, were produced by the Youth education on Stage Festival, North Dakota, where it won 2nd place in the juried show; and in the Built on Stilts Festival, Martha's Vineyard, as well as the City of Independence Theatre Festival, Missouri, July 2010. Falling Under Your Spell - Short Plays for Lovers & Tricksters, was produced by the New england Fringe Festival, Boston, 2008, where it won third place audience choice. Her short play, the acolyte, was produced in Boston and Provincetown in 2008-2009. Hothouse, a finalist for the Arts and Letters Prizes, the Robert Lehan award, and the Nantucket Short Play Festival, was produced by the Hovey Summer Arts Festival and is published by Heuer Publishing. Hovey also produced Kelly's one-act play, What We Save, a finalist for the Arts and Letters Prizes and which was produced by the Boston actor's Theatre, Cambridge. Bloom, produced by Playwright's Platform Summer Festival, won the Playwrights' Choice award, and was produced at the Philipstown Depot Festival, the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, Flint City Theatre, MI, & Newton Cable TV, and has been published by Heuer Publishing. Spa Reservations was produced by the Boston Theatre Marathon; Practicing Peace was produced by the Playwright's Platform Summer Festival, where it won the audience Choice award. During the summer of 2010, Kelly's 10-minute play, Monarch, was produced by the Salem Theatre Company, and Kelly produced & directed her eNVIa! monologue, Your Dream of Me, at FeVeRFeST, the Piano Factory, Boston. Four of Kelly's eNVIa! monologues were produced by the Island Theatre Workshop, Martha's Vineyard, Oct. 2010. For additional play credits, please see Kelly's blog at www.diarydoor.typepad.com/stagedoor. Publications: Published Plays & Monologues: the adventures of Rocky & Skye - Comic Skits for Kids, Youth Plays; Hothouse, One-act Play, Heuer Publishing. Bloom, 10-minute play, Heuer Publishing. Practicing Peace: audition arsenal for Men in their 30s: 101 Monologues by Type, 2 Minutes & Under; Smith & Kraus Pub. If You Went Missing: audition arsenal for Women in their 30s: 101 Monologues by Type, 2 Minutes & Under; Smith & Kraus Pub; My Buddy List: audition arsenal for Men in their 30s: 101 Monologues by Type, 2 Minutes & Under, Smith & Kraus Pub Inc., Cloud Jumping & the Baby artists: Winners Competition Series Volume 2: award-winning, 90-Second Comic Scenes for ages 4-12 by Janet B. Milstein, Smith & Kraus. Published Non-Fiction: Before You Forget - the Wisdom of Writing Diaries for Your Children, Red Pail Press, Inc. Kelly is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
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Acolyte Adventures Of Rocky & Skye, The Away Message Bloom Envia! Performance Artiste Everything Blows Away Hothouse New Digs No Strings Practicing Peace Red Pen Spa Reservations This Byte Weekend At Dreaming Cloud What We SaveAcolyte
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part of the 2nd Annual Salute UR Shorts New Play Festival
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Through a series of short, fast-paced scenes, a quartet of characters grow up before the audience's eyes, as we witness the friendship, fun and social skirmishes Rocky, Skye, Ratani and Grant, encounter on their journey from kindergarten through middle school. Whether they're debating whose father can reach the moon first, kissing and telling, picturing unlikely future careers, double dating or waiting for the last bell of middle school to ring, these charming characters inspire us to laugh and appreciate the extraordinary moments of ordinary life. a free excerpt can be read at www.youthplays.com, and two free monologues for female youth are available from the play.
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Two scenes, "Cloud Jumping" And "the Baby Artists" Are published in the Smith & Kraus Anthology Winners Competition Series Vol. 2: Award-Winning 90-Second Comic Scenes Ages 4-12 (ed. Janet Milstein).
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Summer Shorts 4: Celebration, produced by Youth education on Stage (Williston, ND), wHERE it won second place 2009
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One-act Youth Comedy
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Male: 2-16 Female: 2-21 Other: 4-37 performers total
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selected for the New American Playwright's Festival, Nashua, the 15-Minute Festival, Belfast, Me, the Havermeyer Playwright's Competition, Greenwich, CT, And the Ritalin Readings, theatre Coop, Somerville.
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Kristy, a divorced mother, wakes suddenly from an afternoon dream to find her son, Josh, dressing for his senior prom. His father has already provided all the essentials - money, a condom, a car - and what Kristy hopes will be a chance to share a special milestone with her son becomes a poignant awakening to change, loss and letting go.
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won the Playwrights' Choice Award, And was produced At the Philipstown Depot Festival, the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, the Acme New Works Festival, Flint City theatre, MI
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Playwright's Platform Summer Festival 2005
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Top of PageEnvia! Performance Artiste
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a performance artist muses on her reasons for performing
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the Studio, Toronto 10 Mar 2010
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New Ideas Festival 2010
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Everything Blows Away, Is A Finalist In the 20th Annual Nantucket Short Play Festival 2012, Nantucket, Ma.
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the New Ideas Festival, Alumnae Theatre, Toronto 28 Mar 2012
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Len Sr., a widower with a green thumb and a love of Shakespeare, hoped to sell his beloved nursery so that his kids wouldn't fight over the business after he died. His plan failed and after his death the nursery becomes a hothouse of sibling rivalry, where one kid's hell is another kid's heaven. Karen, an ambitious entrepreneur, takes over the floundering business to turn it around, sell it, and create capital for her next venture. But Len, who inherited his father's passion for plants, is wedded to his father's poetic dreams. Hurt and betrayed, he resists his sister's plan to sell their father's legacy. Len and Karen struggle over loyalty to their father's memory, to themselves, and to each other, and make a surprising peace in the end.
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