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Georgette Kelly

GEORGETTE KELLY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Abrams Artists Agency  represented by Amy Wagner

Georgette Kelly is a playwright with one foot in New York and the other in Chicago. Her play BALLAST was a finalist in the 2015 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition and a nominee for the 2014 Kilroys List. Georgette is also the recipient of the 2014 Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award for her play F*CK LA VIE D'ARTISTE. Her other plays include: IN THE BELLY OF THE WHALE, HOW TO HERO, I CARRY YOUR HEART, and an adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's novel, LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING, which was produced in 2011 by Chicago's New Leaf Theatre, directed by Jess Hutchinson. She is a member of the 2014-2015 Groundbreakers Playwrights Group at TerraNOVA Collective, and her work has been developed at The National New Play Network MFA Playwrights' Workshop at The Kennedy Center, The Alliance Theatre, 59E59, New Leaf Theatre Company, Prologue Theatre Company, and The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America and Chicago's Writers WorkSpace. Georgette holds a B.A. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and an M.F.A in Playwriting from Hunter College, where she studied with Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, and Mark Bly. When she is not writing plays, she teaches Drama and French for youth.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Ballast         F*ck la vie d'artiste         how to hero, or, the subway play         I Carry Your Heart         In the Belly of the Whale (working title)         Lighthousekeeping

Ballast

Synopsis:
What does it mean to love someone in a moment of great transition? Zoe dreams of flyingof escaping to new heightswhile her wife, Grace, dreams of standing in a pulpit before a religious community that accepts her recent transition from male to female. 16-year-old Savannah dreams only of her first love, Xavier, who is coping with becoming a man. Meanwhile Xavier is haunted by the nightmares he sees staring back at him from the mirror. Ballast tells the story of two relationships between transgender and cisgender partners, exploring not only the way gender influences our relationships, but also how gender seeps into our spirituality, our dreams, and even our ability to take flight.

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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

1st Produced:
Reading, Hunter College Playwrights Festival    2013

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Genre:
LGBT full length

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  2 trans

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F*ck la vie d'artiste

Synopsis:
Zenab is an aspiring artist, stuck giving tours of the room where Vincent Van Gogh died. As Vincent's ghost begins to speak to her, she finds herself tangled in a passionate triangle, torn between her artistic inspiration and her chance for love with Avery, an American woman who wanders into the museum. The situation worsens when race riots explode in the area around Paris, and the characters wrestle with difficult questions: What does it mean to be an outsider in France? Can riotingor artmake a difference in urban poverty and racial politics? Is it possible to repaint a landscape of concrete with a rich new language of colors? With a title inspired by the fearless exploration of identity in contemporary French hip-hop, this play offers a new spin on the artist's lifela vie dartiste.

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University, Hunter College Playwrights Festival    2014

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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how to hero, or, the subway play

Synopsis:
Webster is 11, and he has a lot of questions: Why are the grown-ups building a new subway tunnel along Second Avenue? Why wont his sister Rory stop stuttering? Why have all the words disappeared from his copy of Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology? And most importantly: is it still possible to visit the King of the Underworld to rescue a lost thing, for example, a father? Webster, Rory, and their friend Madison try to answer these questions when they sneak into the new subway tunnel on a quest to find their lost words and their lost father. On the way, they meet a strange cast of characters (and rats!) who live under the streets of Manhattan.

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Genre:
adventure, drama, young audiences

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  3

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I Carry Your Heart

Synopsis:
Phoebe is a young poet, forever living in the shadow of her estranged mother's literary acclaim. When her mother unexpectedly dies, however, Phoebe is left with two complicated legacies: donating her mother's organs and reading her mother's unpublished confessional journal. Meanwhile, Tess and her partner Lydia receive a late night phone call, informing them that a donor heart is available for Tess  good news, but news that has come far sooner than they were prepared for. As these two families form an unlikely connection, they struggle to understand the politics and poetics of organ donationand they dare to hope that pieces of us can live on after great tragedy.

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1st Produced:
Workshop, Prologue Theatre Company, Chicago, IL    2012

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Genre:
dark comedy, drama

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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In the Belly of the Whale (working title)

Synopsis:
Astrid is a sculptor. Domino is a hoarder. Jona is a writer. Calliope is a parrot. They all live togetherseparatelyin a Manhattan studio apartment building. When it begins to rain&and rain&and rain&they pile into one of Astrid's sculptures and float out to sea. The adventure that ensues tests their endurance, as they lose one world and create another in the belly of a whale. This new take on the biblical story of Jonah asks the question: What does it mean to be swallowed, by a great fish? By a city? By yourself?

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1st Produced:
Workshop, National New Play Network MFA Playwrights' Workshop at The Kennedy Center    2014

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Genre:
adventure, dark comedy, drama, experimental

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Lighthousekeeping

Synopsis:
Adapted from the novel by Jeanette Winterson. Silver, a young woman twice flung from home, learns to tell herself like a story, piecing together the disparate events that make up her life and connect her with those who came before her. While examining the structures we use to interpret our experiences, this epic journey of love, longing, and light explores the gambles and gifts of choosing change from one life to the next.

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1st Produced:
New Leaf Theatre and the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA Storefront)    2011

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Genre:
adaptation, drama

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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