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KELLY YOUNGER (1972 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Washington Square Arts & Films |
Kelly Younger is an award-winning playwright with work staged off-Broadway, in New York, Los Angeles, London, Chicago, throughout the Midwest and South, as well as in Canada, the UK, and Ireland. He is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA Playwrights Unit, the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, The Dramatists Guild of America, and is a voting member for the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards. Currently, Mr. Younger is developing a new full-length, time-bending, romantic-comedy called Rorschach that recently had a premiere reading in New York. In addition, New York's Irish Repertory Theatre has commissioned Mr. Younger to write the stage adaptation of Peter Quinn's novelBanished Children of Eve. Select works include: I Think You Think I Love You (Playscripts; Smith and Kraus anthology Best Plays of 2005); Forgive me, Father (JAC publishing); Lady Gregory's Ingredients (JAC publishing), winner of the Ireland National Lady Gregory Playwriting Award; Off Compass, winner of the 2007 John Gassner New Play Award through SUNY Stony Brook; Once a Marine; Epiphany Cake; and Why Wyoming,Critics' Choice Samuel French off-Broadway Festival. Several monologues from Mr. Younger's plays appear in various anthologies from Smith and Kraus as well as Playscripts, and an excerpt of Mr. Younger's translation ofTrojan Women appears in Beth Henley's play Revelers (Dramatists Play Service). Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mr. Younger earned an MA in Classics at Loyola University Chicago and PhD in Drama Studies from University College Dublin in Ireland. He is currently an Associate Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University where he leads workshops in Playwriting and teaches courses in Dramatic Literature. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.
Plays by Kelly Younger
Banished Children of Eve | ||
| 1st Produced: | Irish Repertory Theatre | 24 Oct 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119705 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on the novel by Peter Quinn | |||||
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. | |||||
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Can Can, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hollywood, CA | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Avery Schreiber Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | in 2009: The Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More Actors, Smith & Kraus (December 1, 2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1575257594 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56378 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| (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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Epiphany Cake | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56371 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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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Forgive me, Father | ||
| 1st Produced: | Williamstown, Canada | 2004 | ||||
Company: | St. Brigid's Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | JAC Publishing and Promotion, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56375 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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I Think You Think I Love You | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA (Hollywood, CA, United States) | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54411 | |||
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Genre: | 10-12 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 male, 1 female | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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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Kalamazoo | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stella Adler Theatre, Hollywood | 28 Sep 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132245 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | She has three grown-up children, ten grandchildren and a love of birds - Peg finds herself back on the dating market and trying to get the hang of finding a man on the internet | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lady Gregory's Ingredients | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Gort Repertory Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | JAC Publishing and Promotion, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56374 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lost Boy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86353 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A professor eulogises a dead student | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mametus Rex: Or, David Mamet Rewrites a Greek Tragedy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56377 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A brief . . . very brief . . . version of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex according to David Mamet | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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most monday mornings | ||
| 1st Produced: | Memorial Theatre, Dublin | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56379 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Chorus | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A contemporary translation of Sophocles' Greek tragedy Trachiniai. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Off Compass | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56372 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #64567 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | aka Return Of The Soldier | |||||
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. | |||||
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Pull For Exit | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles, CA | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Wine Cellar Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Attic Salt, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56376 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rorschach | ||
| 1st Produced: | Barnelle Theatre, Loyola Marymount University (staged reading) | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Playwrights Center Stage Series | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74480 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | aka By The Look Of Things | |||||
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. | |||||
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Tender | ||
| 1st Produced: | City Center Stage, New York | 21 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126138 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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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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Why Wyoming | ||
| 1st Produced: | Off Broadway | 2006 | ||||
Company: | 3Graces | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #64702 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | aka Wyoming. Official selection, Samuel French Off-Broadway Festival | |||||
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. | |||||
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