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| Kelly Younger is an award-winning playwright with work staged off-Broadway, in New York, Los Angeles, London, Chicago, throughout the Midwest and South, as well as in Canada, the UK, and Ireland. He is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA Playwrights Unit, the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, The Dramatists Guild of America, and is a voting member for the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards.
Currently, Mr. Younger is developing a new full-length, time-bending, romantic-comedy called Rorschach that recently had a premiere reading in New York. In addition, New York's Irish Repertory Theatre has commissioned Mr. Younger to write the stage adaptation of Peter Quinn's novel Banished Children of Eve.
Select works include: I Think You Think I Love You (Playscripts; Smith and Kraus anthology Best Plays of 2005); Forgive me, Father (JAC publishing); Lady Gregory's Ingredients (JAC publishing), winner of the Ireland National Lady Gregory Playwriting Award; Off Compass, winner of the 2007 John Gassner New Play Award through SUNY Stony Brook; Once a Marine; Epiphany Cake; and Why Wyoming, Critics' Choice Samuel French off-Broadway Festival.
Several monologues from Mr. Younger's plays appear in various anthologies from Smith and Kraus as well as Playscripts, and an excerpt of Mr. Younger's translation of Trojan Women appears in Beth Henley's play Revelers (Dramatists Play Service).
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mr. Younger earned an MA in Classics at Loyola University Chicago and PhD in Drama Studies from University College Dublin in Ireland. He is currently an Associate Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University where he leads workshops in Playwriting and teaches courses in Dramatic Literature.
He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. |
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$14.95 per book
Discover a monologue book like no other. Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women gives you an extraordinary array of cutting-edge new monologues, from comedic to dramatic and everything in between. Unlike other monologue books, the source of every monologue is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. Explore the work of today's most celebrated theatrical voices, including Naomi Iizuka, Rinne Groff, Jane Martin, Pulitzer Prize winners Lynn Nottage and David Lindsay-Abaire, and many more!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
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Comedy
Short, 10-12 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$30.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Branwyn returns home exhausted from a hike where she scattered the ashes of both her dead mother and her crazy sister's dead cat. A knock on the door prompts Branwyn to unleash her frantic tale on Mark -- a guy she thinks is there to buy her house, but is really the blind date she forgot was tonight. Once they figure out the mistaken identity, Branwyn and Mark discover the tenderness that often follows our most humiliating moments.
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| "...A comedic tour-de-force... the play was superbly crafted and often wildly funny." |
| --Scott Ross, The News and Observer |
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