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UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS IN SEPT-NOV 2008:
The New England Fringe Festival at the Boston Center for the Arts will feature Kelly DuMar's production of Falling Under Your Spell - Short Plays for Lovers & Tricksters, on Sept. 25 at 8:00 p.m., Sept. 27, 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Starring Joe Orrigo and Perri DuMar
Weekend at the Dreaming Cloud Comes to Yellow Taxi Productions
Kelly's full-length drama, Winner of the The Susan McIntyre Playwriting Festival, will be presentd by Yellow Taxi Productions, Nashua, NH, November 7, 2008 at 7:30pm and November 9 at 2pm, Nashua, NH. For more info, contact Kelly at diarydoor@aol.com.
RECENT EVENTS:
The Cell - Kelly's 10-minute contemporary drama for two teens, was produced by the Playwrights' Platform Annual Festival, June 19, 20, and 21, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, 949 Comm. Ave., Boston, MA. Playwrights' Platform or Kelly DuMar
The Acolyte - Kelly's 10-minute play, was produced by the Rapscallioin Theatre Collective as part of their Salute UR Shorts Festival, July 17-20, 2008 at the Endtime Underground at the Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, New York, NY
Life Stages ~ A Community Conversation Through the Dramatic Arts, will be held April 5, 2008, 7:00 p.m. at the Sherborn (Mass.) Community Center featuring plays by Kelly DuMar & Chris King.
2nd Annual Our Voices Together Festival, May 17, 2008, 7:00 p.m. ~ Kelly will participate in this evenings of readings of Playwrights' Platform women's plays held at the Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. Funded in part by a grant from the International Centre for Women Playwrights, , support from Playwrights' Platform, and donation of space from Wellesley Summer Theatre Produced by Regina Eliot-Ramsay with a post-play discussion moderated by playwrigthts Kelly DuMar & Chris King.
I began writing plays in 2001, and joined a cooperative, developmental writing group, Playwrights' Platform Boston. For the past four years I have my plays read by actors on stage for the first time, followed by feedback from the audience. As Interim President of Playwright’s Platform, I play an active role in building a supportive community for new playwrights.
PSYCHODRAMATIST
While practicing as a psychotherapist, I discovered psychodrama as a dramatic method for inspiring growth and healing, and I used action methods in individual and group therapy for many years. I’m a Certified Psychodramatist and a Fellow in the American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama ASGPP.
DIARIST
In addition to my own journals, I’ve been keeping diaries for each of my three children for twenty years. In 2001, I published my non-fiction book, Before You Forget – The Wisdom of Writing Diaries for Your Children. It’s available on Amazon.com or by e-mailing redpailpress@aol.com
Read my DiaryDoor Blog.
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR
I’ve been facilitating Diary Door Writing Workshops for twenty-five years for adults and children. These workshops blend personal growth counseling, journal therapy, creativity coaching and psychodrama. I have a Master’s Degree in Education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in English from the University of Mass., Amherst.
PLAY CREDITS
Weekend at the Dreaming Cloud, a finalist in the John Gassner New Play Festival, Stony Brook University, NY, 2005, and the Boston Actors Theater, 2006, was selected by Yellow Taxi Productions as one of four finalists for the Susan McIntyre Play Festival. It will have a staged reading on April 16, 2007 in Nashua, NH. Kelly won the Playwrights' Choice Award two years in a row (for Bloom, and New Digs.) Recent Play Credits: Hothouse, a finalist for the Arts and Letters Prizes of the Journal of Contemporary Culture, The Nantucket Short Play Competition, and the Robert Lehan One-Act Award, was produced by the Hovey Summer Arts Festival, 2005 and published by Heuer Publishing (www.hitplays.com). Bloom, produced by Philipstown Depot One Act Festival and the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival 2005, was published by Heuer publishing. What We Save, a one-act play, was produced by the Hovey Summer Arts Festival, 2006. Monologues published in Smith & Kraus Audition Anthologies include: If You Went Missing, My Buddy List, and Practicing Peace. Currently, Kelly has just finished writing her full-length play, Away Message.
PLAYS
10-Minute Plays
Practicing Peace (published by Brooklyn publishing)
Run For Your Life
Paradise Reserved
Spa Reservations
Hole in One
Away Message
Bloom (published by Heuer Publishing)
New Digs
This Byte
Clay
Monologues
Patchwork
What Belly Dancers Know
Practicing Peace, two-minute monologue (published by Smith & Kraus Audition Anthology)
If You Went Missing (published by Smith & Kraus Audition Anthology)
My Buddy List (published by Smith & Kraus Audition Anthology)
One-Act Plays
Hothouse (published by Heuer Publishing)
What We Save
Full-Length Plays
Weekend at the Dreaming Cloud
Away Message