Dennis Kelly
Dennis Kelly (born November 16, 1970 in Barnet , London , England ) is a British author for theater, radio and television.
Life
Kelly grew up in Barnet in an Irish family and was raised Catholic. His father was a bus conductor and had five children in total. Kelly left school when she was 16. Kelly describes the influences of the district in which Kelly grew up, namely a housing estate owned by the city (council estate), as very stimulating through the different people and classes he met there.
Kelly worked in supermarkets and joined a theater-loving youth group, the Barnet Drama Center. In the following years he graduated with drama and theater degrees and received an honors from Goldsmiths College of Fine Arts at the University of London . Kelly wrote his first play Debris at the age of 30.
Works (selection)
theatre
- Debris: April 17, 2003 WP: Theater 503 , Battersea , London; DSE March 12, 2004: Schutt , Burgtheater Vestibül, Vienna.
- The Fourth Gate. A Klezmer piece: Translation from Hungarian by Kelly, original by Pétér R. Kárpáti : Royal National Theater , London
- Osama the Hero: 2005 WP: Hampstead Theater , London; DSE October 1, 2010: Osama the hero , Drama Essen
- After the End: 2005 WP: Traverse Theater , Edinburgh; German-language premiere: September 2007: After the end , Deutsches Theater Berlin
- Our Teacher's a Troll
- Rose Bernd , adaptation of the play by Gerhart Hauptmann , translated by Antony Meech : 2005 Premiere: March 22, 2005 at the Arcola Theater , London. Print edition: Oberon Books, London 2005. ISBN 1-84002-551-4
- Love and Money: 2006 WP: Royal Exchange Manchester , Manchester; Love and Money , 2009, Thalia Theater , Hamburg; Director: Stephan Kimmig .
- Brendan's Visit
- Taking Care of Baby: 2007 Premiere: Hampstead Theater, London.
- published by Oberon, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-840027785 .
- Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid (DNA): 2007 for the 2007 Royal National Theater Connections Festival; DEA: DNA , Theater Oberhausen , 2013.
- Orphans: 2009 WP: Birmingham Repertory Theater , later performed at the Traverse Theater in Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe .
- The Gods Weep: 2010 World premiere: March 17th 2010, Hampstead Theater, London. DSE: The Gods Weep, September 15, 2011, Theater Basel .
- The Prince of Homburg; after Heinrich von Kleist , 2010. Premiere: Donmar Warehouse.
- The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas: 2012 UA: Royal Court Theater . DEA The Sacrifice of Gorge Mastromas , 2012, Schauspiel Frankfurt at the Ruhr Festival .
Adaptation
- From Morning to Midnight : 2013. Translation of the play From morning to midnight of 1912 by Georg Kaiser
- Rose Bernd . Adaptation of a piece by Gerhart Hauptmann , based on the translation by Antony Meech.
musical
- Matilda , with Tim Minchin , premiered in 2010 by the Royal Shakespeare Company .
Radio:
- The Colony , 2004. In 2004 the piece won the Prix Europa for best European radio play.
Watch TV:
- along with Sharon Horgan Pulling for BBC Three.
- Utopia (TV series) for Channel 4 .
- Spooks - In the sights of MI5 , episode 70 in season eight.
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
Web links
- Dennis Kelly at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dennis Kelly (English)
- Love and Money (English)
- Pulling in BBC Three
- Pulling in The Guardian (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ FAZ from October 4, 2010, page 30: Prince Osama von Homburg
- ↑ Capital barbarians in: FAZ of September 17, 2011, page 38
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kelly, Dennis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British theater, radio and television author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barnet , London , England |