Performing Arts Artistic and Theatre Director
Kellie is a highly trained theatre-artist with twenty years of professional experience as a director, writer, performer and collaborator. Her work has toured extensively both nationally and internationally. Highlights include; Galway International Arts Festival, Kilkenny 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.
Theatre collaborations of note include Striking Back, a new play co-written with playwright Mathew Spangler, based on the experiences of activist Mary Manning during the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strikes in the 1980s, CONSTANCE, a new work examining the life and legacy of artist, activist and radical revolutionary Constance de Markievicz, written and directed by Kellie and created in collaboration with composer Michael Rooney, and collaborations with The Emergency Room and Galway International Arts Festival, including Death At Intervals, adapted from José Saramago’s novel of the same name, Samuel Beckett’s prose piece Lessness and Olwen Fouéré’s award winning riverrun, adapted from the voice of the river Liffey/Life in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. 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.
Film and Radio work include Astray, adapted by filmmaker Johnny Gogan from Seamus Heaney's version of Buile Suibne (Bandit Films), Swansong (Zanzibar Films) and Know Your Station, co-written by Eithne Hand, Mikel Murfi and Jinx Lennon (RTE Radio).
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).
Kellie trained at the Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique, London and the Centre Artistique International Roy Hart, Maleragues. She holds a first class BA honours in Theatre and History and an MA honours in Physical Theatre.