Dennis Kelly

Dennis Kelly ( born November 16, 1970 in Barnet, London ) is an English writer for theater, radio and television.

Life

Kelly grew up in Barnet on in an Irish family and was raised Catholic. His father was a bus conductor and had five children. Kelly left with 16 years of school. The influences of the district in which Kelly grew up, namely a housing estate owned by the city ( council estate ), Kelly describes as very stimulating by the different people and layers he encountered there.

Kelly worked in supermarkets and joined a theater enthusiastic youth group, the Barnet Drama Centre. In the following years he earned a degree in the fields of drama and theater and got an award from Goldsmiths College of Fine Arts of the University of London. Kelly wrote his first piece of debris at the age of 30 years.

Works (selection)

  • Debris: April 17, 2003 UA: Theatre 503, Battersea, London; DSE March 12, 2004: Rubble, Burgtheater vestibule, Vienna.
  • The Fourth Gate. A Klezmer piece: Translation from the Hungarian by Kelly, original by Peter R. Kárpáti: Royal National Theatre, London
  • After the End: 2005 UA: Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; German -language premiere: September 2007: Following the end, Deutsches Theater, Berlin
  • Our Teacher's a Troll
  • Rose Bernd, editing of the play by Gerhart Hauptmann, translated by Antony Meech: 2005 UA: March 22, 2005 at the Arcola Theatre, London. Print Edition: Oberon Books, London 2005 ISBN 1-84002-551-4.
  • Love and Money: 2006 UA: Royal Exchange Manchester, Manchester; Love and Money, 2009 Thalia Theater, Hamburg; Director: Stephan Kimmig.
  • Brendan 's Visit
  • Taking Care of Baby: 2007 UA: Hampstead Theatre, London. published by Verlag Oberon, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-840027785.
  • Rose Bernd. Adaptation of a play by Gerhart Hauptmann, based on the translation of Antony Meech.
  • The Colony, 2004. The play won the 2004 Prix Europa as the best European radio play.
  • Together with Sharon Horgan Pulling for BBC Three.
  • Utopia ( TV series) for Channel 4
  • Spooks - In sight of the MI5, episode 70 in the eighth season.

Prizes and awards

  • 2006: Meyer- Whitworth Award for After the End
  • 2007: John Whiting Award for Taking Care of a Baby
  • 2009: Fringe First for Orphans
  • 2009: Harald Angel Award for Orphans
  • 2012: Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical for Matilda the Musical
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