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.
New York’s Irish Repertory Theatre has commissioned Younger to write the stage adaptation of the novel, Banished Children of Eve by Peter Quinn, for their 2008 season. An epic tale about Irish-Americans and African-Americans living in the slums of NY during the Civil War, Younger will collaborate on the adaptation with playwright Katori Hall.
Other select works include: I Think You Think I Love You (Playscripts Inc.; Smith and Kraus anthology, "The Best Plays of 2005" (ed. D.L. Lepidus); Off Compass, winner of the 2007 John Gassner New Play Award through CUNY Stony Brook; Once a Marine; Epiphany Cake; and Why Wyoming.
Monologues from Younger’s plays appear in various anthologies, and an excerpt of Younger’s translation of Trojan Women appears in Beth Henley’s play Revelers (Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 2004).
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Younger earned an MA in Classics at Loyola University Chicago and PhD in Drama Studies from the National University of 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 Stephanie and son Aidan Beckett.
www.KellyYounger.com
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