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Kelly Younger

KELLY YOUNGER

  (1972 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Washington Square Films  

Kelly Younger's current and recent work includes: This World We Know (Firehouse Theatre, 2015); and the hit comedy Kalamazoo with Michelle Kholos Brooks (Dramatists Play Service, 2016; Riva Shriver Comedy Award, Bloomington Playwrights Project; Pacific Resident Theatre; Adirondack Theatre Festival, among others.) His play, Tender, was a finalist for the Laurents/Hatcher Award, and was directed by Lynne Meadow for Manhattan Theatre Club's "7@7" reading series. Younger's short play, Mandate (Samuel French, 2015), was a Heidemann Award finalist, and winner of the 39th Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival and has been performed from Alaska to Dubai. Other short plays include: Let's Get Physical (City Theatre, Miami; Edinburgh Fringe Festival), and Best Lei'd Plans (Stella Adler Theatre, Hollywood, starring Markie Post and Mindy Sterling; Barrington Stage Company; City Theatre, Miami.). In television and film, Younger is currently developing projects with Disney Animation Studios and Josephson Entertainment, having previously developed with Mandeville Films; Gil Netter Productions; DreamWorks Animation Studios; and directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg.

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

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         Banished Children of Eve         Best Lei'd Plans         Can Can, The         Epiphany Cake         Forgive me, Father         I Think You Think I Love You         Kalamazoo         Lady Gregory's Ingredients         Lets Get Physical         Lost Boy         Mametus Rex: Or, David Mamet Rewrites a Greek Tragedy         Mandate         most monday mornings         Off Compass         Once A Marine         Pull For Exit         Rorschach         Tender         This World We Know, by KELLY YOUNGER, winner of the New American Play Festival, will have its world premiere on Feb 5 at The Firehouse Theatre in Richmond, VA, directed by Kerrigan Sullivan. http://www.firehousetheatre.org/this-world-we-know-world-premiere/         Why Wyoming

Banished Children of Eve

Synopsis:
the Irish Repertory theatre commissioned playwright Kelly Younger to write this bristling Drama set during the Civil War in New York City. Banished Children of Eve follows a motley assemblage of New Yorkers through a few days in the terrible summer of 1863 when the Civil War had just entered its third bloody year. Against the backdrop of the dangerous, sweltering Civil War summer of 1863, the Bowery explodes with racial tension and the City of New York rushes headlong toward the fatal July draft riots. Moving to the music and rhythms of these dangerous times, a diverse band of characters are drawn together in a net of intrigue and violence. Jack Mulcahey, leading an Irish Minstrel Troupe, stars opposite his true love, a beautiful Mulatto girl who whites her face and crosses the ice as Eliza in Uncle Tom's Cabin. On the blistering streets outside, corrupt Tammany Hall bosses plot to take advantage of the chaos to enrich themselves whilst destroying any hopes of escape to a place of freedom and peace for Jack and his little family. the famous songwriter, Stephen Foster, himself one of the Banished Children of Eve, wends his way through this entrancing Drama as he produces the beautiful melodies which have given the country its lasting evocation of the times.

Notes:
Based on the novel by Peter Quinn

1st Produced:
Irish Repertory theatre
132 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011     24 Oct 2010

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Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Best Lei'd Plans

Synopsis:
One beach wedding, two mothers-in-law, four pina coladas, and a 'safe word' lead to a surprising new relationship and best laid plans.

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1st Produced:
Barrington Stage Company. Pittsfield, MA     11 Feb 2016

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Can Can, The

Can Can, The
(Mis)communicating through a string phone made of two cans, a couple comically struggles to argue their way out of cliches.

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1st Produced:
Hollywood, Ca     2004

Organisations:
Avery Schreiber Theatre

1st Published:
in 2009: the Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More Actors, Smith & Kraus (December 1, 2009)   978-1575257594

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Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Epiphany Cake

Synopsis:
A mother-daughter book group in Los Angeles anticipates the arrival of a New Yorker writer doing an article on them (and secretly the lack of literary culture in Los Angeles). the women were so excited about the evening that they all forgot one crucial ingredient: to read the book. In their comic struggle to save face, their alliances change, secrets are exposed, and the line between fact and fiction is not only blurred, but flat out erased. Act One is a desperate attempt for Barbara, Marie, Candice, and Beth to pass as readers. they talk about the book based only on their quick reading of the back cover. Completely misunderstanding the story, they not only get caught, but the writer, Alice, turns out to be the actual author of the novel. Act Two is a desperate attempt to pick up the pieces, and, for Alice, a comic attempt to escape LA. But now that the secret is out it leads to one can of worms after another: race vs. class, LA vs. NY, mothers vs. daughters. the women turn themselves inside out and force each other to face the truths about their lives and the fictions they have been living.

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Forgive me, Father

Synopsis:
A young Irish priest hears his first confession from an old Irish farmer lost on his way to the post office. But who ends up confessing to whom? And who really needs the forgiving?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Williamstown, Canada     2004

Organisations:
St. Brigid's Theatre

1st Published:
JAC Publishing and Promotion, 2006   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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I Think You Think I Love You

Synopsis:
Branwyn returns home exhausted from a hike where she scattered the ashes of both her dead mother and her crazy sister's dead cat. A knock on the door prompts Branwyn to unleash her frantic tale on Mark -- a guy she thinks is there to buy her house, but is really the blind date she forgot was tonight. Once they figure out the mistaken identity, Branwyn and Mark discover the tenderness that often follows our most humiliating moments.

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1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre/La (Hollywood, Ca, United States)     2003

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
10-12 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 male, 1 female

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Kalamazoo

Synopsis:
Peg and Irv, two quirky but endearing baby-boomers bravely venture into the world of modern dating. But when these opposites attract, they discover love isn't any easier the second time around. Kalamazoo is a romantic-comedy about life's second act and learning you're never too old to be young.

Notes:
by Kelly Younger and Michelle Kholos Brooks

1st Produced:
Stella Adler Theatre, Hollywood     28 Sep 2011

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1st Published:
Dramatists play service, NY (2016)   -

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lady Gregory's Ingredients

Synopsis:
the famous Irish playwright contemplates soft edges in a sharp world, the lingering memory of a lost son, and the redemptive power of three women defining themselves for the first time.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
London     2000

Organisations:
Gort Repertory Theatre

1st Published:
JAC Publishing and Promotion, 2006   -

Music:
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Lets Get Physical

Synopsis:
Greet, who plays man having his annual physical, is surprised when Cassandra Hodges as the doctors assistant is his latest date. His shock is nothing compared to that of Owen Bleachs jealous doctor, who makes life hard, in doing so generating considerable humour. -British Theatre Guide

Notes:
part of The Big Bite-Sized Breakfast Menu 2

1st Produced:
Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     05 Aug 2015

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Genre:
bite size' piece

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Lost Boy

Synopsis:
A professor eulogises a dead student

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mametus Rex: Or, David Mamet Rewrites a Greek Tragedy

Synopsis:
A brief . . . very brief . . . version of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex according to David Mamet

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mandate

Mandate
Forced into a guy's night out by their wives, a stay-at-home dad and a stay-in-his-cubicle accountant go on a disastrous first date' only to learn that friendship really is magic.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stella Adler Theatre, Hollywood, CA     2014

Organisations:
Snapshots: A Theatrical Benefit

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Genre:
ten min comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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most monday mornings

Synopsis:
A contemporary translation of Sophocles' Greek tragedy Trachiniai.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Memorial Theatre, Dublin     1997

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  Chorus

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Off Compass

Synopsis:
Highway 50, which old maps call the Loneliest Road, goes from San Francisco, California to Ocean City, Maryland. Highway 83, called the Road to Nowhere by the same old maps, goes from Swan River, Manitoba to Brownsville, Texas. they crisscross in Garden City, Kansas, where the Drama takes place. This play explores the intersection of human loneliness and the desire for anywhere and nowhere. A fraudulent artist, a boy on the verge of manhood, an unwilling Father figure, and a woman finally in the driver's seat discover that loneliness often leads to deception, especially if it offers a way out. the play is a modern recasting of American myth - from Elvis Presley to the Wizard of Oz - where four unlikely travelers yearn for courage, a brain, a heart, and a way home. How they get what they want is a different story.

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Once A Marine

Synopsis:
Major Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked marine, returns home from Iraq having suffered an amnesic loss of the last fifteen years. He has no recollection of the wife he left behind, Kate, and he only remembers his sister Jenny as being a little girl. the only woman he does remember - and the one he came back for - is his first love from fifteen years ago, Marisol. She has not heard from him in over a decade, until she starts receiving letters from him in Iraq. His bittersweet homecoming not only rekindles lost love, but also trudges up the most painful of memories, especially the loss between a husband and wife. Chris must choose between a future of blissful ignorance, and a past of buried grief. But he is not the one who will decide.

Notes:
aka Return Of the Soldier

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Genre:
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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Pull For Exit

Synopsis:
Set in the womb, three fetuses battle it out for mom's attention, struggle over lack of personal space, and conjecture about the outside world quickly approaching. All while reading their Shakespeare.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Los Angeles, Ca     1994

Organisations:
Wine Cellar Theatre

1st Published:
Attic Salt, 1994   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Rorschach

Synopsis:
Intelligent and moving, Rorschach draws on fact and fiction to investigate the role of love, faith, and human connection in skeptical times. In Act One, 1922 and 2007 crisscross and nearly collide as three couples navigate their tangible fears, comic obsessions, and heart-breaking secrets. Can new love help Justin and Aimee heal old wounds and pursue new futures? Will a single lie be enough to destroy Hermann Rorschach's already failing career and his relationship with Emil, his most trusted colleague? Will Olive overcome her mourning and step forward into a relationship with Dana? the answers to these questions elude them, as their lives, like one of Rorschach's inkblots, merge and blend into one another without a clear design. At least not one that's clear to them. In Act Two, time collapses. Each of our characters is avoiding something, be it failure, desire, life, or connection and struggling to find meaning in the mess. But, as they discover a new outlook on the randomness, and the kindness, of life, they draw closer to deciphering the inkblot.

Notes:
aka By the Look Of Things

1st Produced:
Barnelle Theatre, Loyola Marymount University (Staged Reading)     2007

Organisations:
Playwrights Center Stage Series

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Tender

Synopsis:
A couple in financial trouble think that his father's brand new trailer is the answer to their money worries

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1st Produced:
City Center Stage, New York     21 Mar 2011

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Drama

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This World We Know, by KELLY YOUNGER, winner of the New American Play Festival, will have its world premiere on Feb 5 at The Firehouse Theatre in Richmond, VA, directed by Kerrigan Sullivan. http://www.firehousetheatre.org/this-world-we-know-world-premiere/

Synopsis:
The lives of an estranged brother and sister intertwine with their younger selves as they are forced to choose between unearthing the roots of their enmity, or leaving buried the secrets of their past.

Notes:
winner of the New American Play Festival

1st Produced:
The Firehouse Theatre In Richmond, Va     05 Feb 2015

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Why Wyoming

Synopsis:
After winning her first Oscar, a young Hollywood starlet returns to her native state for her next film shoot. To prepare for the role, she calls upon a childhood friend upon whom she will base her character: an overweight, small-town mother. Nothing, however, can prepare her for the reckoning her past cruelties deserve.

Notes:
aka Wyoming. Official selection, Samuel French Off-Broadway Festival

1st Produced:
Off Broadway     2006

Organisations:
3Graces

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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