Kelly Stuart is an American

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Life

She lived in

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. She has been a New Dramatists writer in residence at The

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’s Studio in London. She lives in New York, and teaches in the Theatre Department at

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Awards

* 2000

Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, ...

* Guthrie New Play grant * NYFA Fellowship * Lark Artists Delegation to Romania

Works

* ''Ball and Chain'', produced at the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival (1990) * ''The Interpreter of Horror'', produced at the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival (1991) * ''Demonology'', produced at the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival (1995) and at

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(1996) * ''The Square Root of Terrible'', produced at The Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles (1998) (theater for young audiences) * ''Furious Blood'', produced at Sledgehammer Theatre, San Diego (2001) * ''The New New'',

Guthrie Theater The Guthrie Theater, founded in 1963, is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The concept of the theater was born in 1959 in a series of discussions among Sir Tyrone Gut ...

(2002) (one-act play) * ''Mayhem'', produced at The Evidence Room, Los Angeles (2003) * ''The Life of Spiders'', produced by Holderness Theatre Company, New York City (2004) * ''Homewrecker'', produced at The Evidence Room, Los Angeles (2004) * ''Bill of (W)Rights'', Mixed Blood Theatre, Minneapolis (2004) (one-act as part of evening of short plays) * ''Shadow Language'', produced at Theatre503, London (2008) * ''A Shoe Is Not a Question'', presented by the A.S.K. Theater Projects, Los Angeles

References

External links

"Kelly Stuart", ''doollee''Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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