Kelly Younger
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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, and The Dramatists Guild of America. I Think You Think I Love You is published by Playscripts Inc. and will appear in the forthcoming Smith and Kraus anthology, "The Best Plays of 2005" (ed. D.L. Lepidus). Two of his plays, Lady Gregory’s Ingredients and Forgive me, Father are published by JAC Publishing and Promotions. Three monologues from Younger’s plays also appear in the Smith and Kraus anthologies Audition Arsenal for Women in their Twenties and Audition Arsenal for Women in their Thirties (ed. Janet Milstein 2005). An excerpt of Younger’s translation of Trojan Women appears in Beth Henley’s play Revelers (Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 2004). Off Compass was just named the winner of the 2007 John Gassner New Play Award through CUNY Stony Brook and recently received its world premiere in New York. The Irish Repertory Theatre in New York has just commissioned Younger to write a play for their 2008 season. It will be a stage adaptation of the novel Banished Children of Eve by Peter Quinn about Irish-Americans and African-Americans living in the slums of NY during the Civil War. Younger will collaborate with the wonderful playwright Katori Hall. Younger hosted and helped organize the 2003 Playwrights EXPO that welcomed over 100 Los Angeles and Southern California theatre companies for a networking conference. More than 800 playwrights, directors, actors, and producers attended. Younger is also a Professional Voting Member for the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards – “LA’s most coveted theater honor” (LA Times). The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences houses the Kelly M. Younger Collection in the Academy Library – over 1000 pages of diary entries, letters, and photographs of a WWII film projectionist in the Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit as edited by Younger. He has published numerous articles on and interviews with playwrights, theatre and book reviews, and has delivered invited lectures at Columbia University, NYU, UCLA, UNLV, CSUN, Arizona State, University of Montana, and the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, as well as talks in St. Louis, Denver, New Orleans, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Chapel Hill, and Dublin, Ireland. In 2001, The Edwin Mellen Press published his book Dionysus in Ireland on Irish versions of Greek tragedies. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Younger studied literature and drama before moving to Chicago where he earned an MA in Classics at Loyola University. He then moved to Dublin where he attended the National University of Ireland – University College Dublin earning a PhD in Drama Studies, and often teaches at Trinity College Dublin during the summers. 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 Stephanie and one and a half year old son Aidan Beckett. kyounger's Contributions
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