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Shannon Keith Kelley

SHANNON KEITH KELLEY  (1948 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Born in Cape Girardeau, MO on February 12, 1948. B.S. in Secondary Education, Southeast Missouri State U., M.F.A. in Theatre, Ohio Univer-sity. about in the Dark, a poetry chapbook; represented in anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetr

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 Big Apple Messenger         Blind Home Coming Near         Dennis And Rex         Headsets         Hope Of The Future         Practical Magic         Time Was

Big Apple Messenger

Synopsis:
explores the relationships of the men who operate a branch office of a messenger service in Manhattan's garment district. During one workday, the in­cremental progression of individual lives unfolds against a backdrop of work. at the end of the day, each man has learned more about himself; certain characters are changed irrevocably by their new insights, others only tangentially affected. Each is sustained by the shared grind of work

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Mark Taper Forum Lab, Ca    -

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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  14            Female:  -            Other:  9 Caucasian, 3 Black, 2 Puerto Rican

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Blind Home Coming Near

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Ohio U, Playwrights Workshop    -

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Dennis And Rex

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Headsets

Synopsis:
concerns the efforts of Ed Cel, a late-night telephone operator (and former rock disc jockey/college dropout), to come to grips with his past by facing the people he encounters over the phone and in person. Other characters in the play are: Tanya, a sixty-year-old operator who dreams of sky diving; MelonShine, a black wino and "regular" phone customer; Half-arm, a Viet Nam vet with an arm gone and a drug habit; 482 JM, a psychology major who works the switchboard at the Tidy Night Inn.

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aka Ed Cel's Psycho-Deli Hours Went That-a-Way

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Ohio U, Mainstage Experimental    -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Hope Of The Future

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Center For The Performing arts, Denver, Colorado    1986

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Practical Magic

Synopsis:
Two couples who both have new babies. One baby is healthy and the other needs lots of medical care

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Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio    11 Dec 1997

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Contained in: "The Best Short Plays 1968" published by Chilton Books 1968   -

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Short play

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Time Was

Synopsis:
Oran Darby, a fifty-year-old drifter, seeks out the one woman he has ever loved - and has not seen for eighteen years: Madge, at forty a very successful business woman who has built her life and nurtured her daughter on the fictitious tragic loss of her husband. The drama ad­dresses the issues of love and responsibility, the necessity of sustaining illusions and what hap­pens when those illusions become one's reality

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South Coast Repertory Co, Ca    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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