Performing Arts Artistic and Theatre Director
Kellie is an Irish theatre artist with over twenty years of experience as a director, writer, performer and collaborator. Her work has toured extensively, nationally and internationally. Highlights include; Galway International Arts Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival, The National Theatre, London, Barbican Arts Centre, London, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Avila Theatre Festival, Spain, FESTCO International Theatre Festival, Bucharest, Istanbul Theatre Festival, Turkey, Tampere Theatre Festival, Finland, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, Adelaide Theatre Festival and Sydney Theatre Company, Australia.
Recent works include; direction of Oh …, an underwater show created in collaboration with Mikel Murfi, produced by Loco and Restless Productions, glór and Galway International Arts Festival; direction of Unspeakable Conversations with Olwen Fouéré, created in collaboration with Christian O’Reilly, Liz Carr and Mat Frazer, produced by Once Off Productions and Galway International Arts Festival; creation/direction of TWO SISTERS, a double bill of new music exploring the lives of poet and activist Eva Gore Booth and radical revolutionary Constance de Markievicz, commissioned by Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo and developed in collaboration with composers Stephen Doherty, Michael Rooney and an octet of musicians; creation/direction of all these words, an immersive installation for the Museum of Literature (MoLI) based on Beckett’s masterpiece The Unnamable, developed with sound artist David Stalling, film-maker José Miguel Jimenez and performer Olwen Fouéré; adaptation/direction of Who’d ever think it would come to this?, a new work commemorating the Irish Civil War, developed in collaboration with composer Anne-Marie O’Farrell, war correspondent Ed Vulliamy, the RTE Symphony Orchestra and UCD Archives.
Other collaborations of note include; direction of José Saramago’s Death At Intervals, adapted for performance in collaboration with Olwen Fouéré and Raymond Scannell; co-creation of Samuel Beckett’s prose piece Lessness with Olwen Fouéré and Sarah Jane Scaife; and co-direction of riverrun, Olwen Fouéré’s award winning adaptation of the voice of the river Liffey/Life in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. All these works were produced by Galway International Arts Festival and toured to national and international venues and festivals.
Kellie was an ensemble performer with Blue Raincoat Theatre Company for seven years and collaborated on the creation of a number of new works with the company, including the Flann O’Brien trilogy. Directing credits for Blue Raincoat include The Yeats Project- The Cat and the Moon and At the Hawk’s Well and remounts of The Bald Soprano and A Brief Taste of Lightning.
Kellie specialises in developing the expressive potential of the body in performance. She wrote and performed two interactive shows for the Science Museum, London- Art, Science and the Moving Body and The Brain and the Body (Televised B.B.C). She trained at the Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique, London and the Centre Artistique International Roy Hart, Maleragues and holds first class BA honours in Theatre and History and MA honours in Physical Theatre.