Kristin Rose Kelly
Joined the Mechanics: 2020
Hometown: Burlington, Vermont
Homebase: Brooklyn, New York
Artistic portfolio: http://kristinrosekelly.org/
Kristin Rose Kelly is a director and playwright who focuses on socially relevant theater and specializes in creating documentary theatre.
Her docu-musical, A Chip on Her Shoulder, about women in engineering has been featured at colleges and universities including Virginia Tech, Virginia Western Community College, NYU, City College of New York, Columbia University, Queens College, and Brooklyn College.
She was an Artist-in-Residence at University Settlement with her theatre collective, Creative Traffic Flow, where they created an original dance theatre piece with community members, Duets of Difference. With collaborator Thomas Murray, she also co-directed Extraordinary Interruptions: a dance theatre piece about mass media events performed at Virginia Tech, Roanoke Ballet Theatre, and the Moss Arts Center. The two presented their creative process at the NYU Forum on Ethnodrama and DirectorsLabChicago.
Kristin served as assistant director for Sarah Cameron Sunde, Talking Band, Honest Accomplice Theatre, Dana Edell and SPARK movement as well as with Salt Marsh Suite: an original video/sound installation and performance of a Carolina estuary created by Carol Burch-Brown and Ann Kilkelly. She was the Director of Theatre for Change for Queering Education Research Institute and has trained with the Irondale Ensemble Project, SITI Company, Ping Chong + Company, and Dance Exchange.
Kristin is a proud ensemble member with Waltzing Mechanics and a Ring of Keys member. Kristin received a Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies and continues to apply feminist theoretical frameworks to her artistic practices. Member of the SDCF Observership Class and 2015 recipient of the SETC Ballew Directing Award, she is an alumna of Pangea World Theatre and Art2Action’s National Institute of Directing and Ensemble Creation. She received her M.F.A. in Directing and Public Dialogue from Virginia Tech and B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Syracuse University.