Tim Kelly (playwright)

Tim Kelly (playwright)

Tim Kelly (October 2, 1937 - 1998) was an American playwright.

Biography

Kelly was born in Saugus, Massachusetts in 1937. His first stage play was "Widow's Walk", published in the 1960's. At the same time, three of his plays opened: "A Darker Flower" at New York's Pocket Theatre, "The Trunk and All That Jazz" at Boston's Image Theatre, and "Die Blum" in Germany.

He wrote over three hundred plays, which have been performed by The Royal Court Rep, The Studio Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Los Angeles Actor's Theatre, the Aspen Playwright's Festival and the Seattle Repertory Company.

Kelly was a drama critic and journalist in Phoenix, Arizona (1957-1967) and a screen and television writer (1968-1978).

In 1995, he became a member of The College of Fellows of the American Theatre.

In 1998 Tim Kelly died suddenly.

Plays


*"Abracadabra, Aladdin!"
*"Airline"
*"A-Haunting We Will Go"
*"Aladdin and His Wonderful, Magical Lamp"
*"Alas! Alack! Zorro's Back!"
*"Alias Smedley Pewtree"
*"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
*"The Aliens Are Coming! The Aliens Are Coming!"
*"Amy Goes Army"
*"The Ballad of Gopher Gap"
*"Bang! Bang! You're Dead"
*"Beast of the Baskervilles"
*"Bedside Manor"
*"Belle of Bisbee"
*"Blue Suede Paws"
*"Bride Of Frankenstein Goes Malibu"
*"The Brothers O'Toole"
*"Calling The Hawk"
*"Captain Nemo and His Magical Marvelous Submarine Machine"
*"Charleston!"
*"Coney Island of Dr. Moreau"
*"A Connecticut Yankee — The Musical"
*"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
*"The Creepy Creeps of Pilgrim Road"
*"Cry Of The Banshee"
*"Curse You, Otis Crummy"
*"A Darker Flower"
*"The Day Christmas Disappeared from Evergreen Town"
*"Die Blum"
*"Ditch Day"
*"Don't Say No to the U.S.O.!"
*"Dr. Jekyll... Please Don't Hyde!"
*"The Empty Chair"
*"The Eskimos Have Landed"
*"Everything's Groovy!"(raquel was here)
*"Flapper!"
*"Follow that Rabbit"
*"Frankenstein Slept Here"
*"Fussin an a-Feudin"
*"Ghostchasers!"
*"Going... Going... Gone With the Breeze"
*"Gone With The Breeze"
*"Gone with the Gust"
*"The Great Ghost Chase"
*"Groovy!"
*"Guess What I Did Last Summer"
*"Happily Never After"
*"Hee Haw Hayride"
*"Hello From Mongo"
*"Help! I'm Trapped In A High School!"
*"Here Come the Cows"
*"Hi, Ho, Robin Hood"
*"Hooray For Hollywood"
*"Hospital"
*"How Santa Got His Christmas Tree"
*"Hurricane Smith — The Musical"
*"Hurricane Smith and the Garden of the Golden Monkey"
*"I Want My Mummy!"
*"The Incredible Bulk at Bikini Beach"
*"Inspector Incognito and the Kansas City Kid"
*"The Internal Teen Machine"
*"The Invisible Man"
*"It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Chickenman!"
*"It's Bigfoot"
*"The Jungle Book" (participation)
*"The Keeping Place"
*"Kilroy Was Here"
*"King of the Golden River"
*"Kodiak Flapjack"
*"Kokonut High"
*"Kokonut Island"
*"Kokonut Kapers"
*"Krazy Kamp"
*"Krazy Kamp — The Musical"
*"Lady Dracula"
*"Last Chance High"
*"Little Luncheonette of Terror"
*"Little Miss Christie"
*"Live a Little"
*"Lizzie Borden Of Fall River"
*"Lucky Dollar — Private Eye"
*"Lucky Dollar, Private Eye — The Musical"
*"Lucky, Lucky Hudson and the 12th Street Gang"
*"Lucky, Lucky Hudson and the 12th Street Gang - The Musical"
*"Lumberjacks and Weddingbelles"
*"Magical Lamp of Aladdin"
*"The Magical Land of Oz"
*"Mark Twain in the Garden of Eden"
*"A Marriage Proposal — Western Style"
*"Marsha"
*"The Masked Canary"
*"Meet the Creeps"
*"Memorial"
*"A Monster Ate My Homework — The Musical"
*"A Monster Ate My Homework"
*"Monster Soup"
*"Mountain Fever"
*"The Mouse And The Raven"
*"My Gypsy Robe"
*"Never Trust a City Slicker"
*"The Nifty Fifties"
*"Not Far from the Gioconda Tree"
*"Oz!"
*"Pecos Bill & Slue-Foot Sue Meet The Dirty Dan Gang"
*"Peril at Pumpernickle Pass"
*"Phantom of the Op'ry"
*"The Ratcatcher's Daughter"
*"Renfield Of The Flies And Spiders"
*"Reunion On Gallows Hill"
*"Robin Hood"
*"Robin Hood — The Musical"
*"Rock Around the Block"
*"Rogue of the Railway"
*"Santa and the Wicked Wazoo"
*"The Secret Garden (musical)"
*"The Secret Garden"
*"Secret Of Skull Island"
*"Seven Brides for Dracula"
*"Seven Wives For Dracula"
*"Shake With a Zombie"
*"Shakespeare Comes to Calamity Creek"
*"Shakespeare Goes to Gravel Gulch"
*"The Shame of Tombstone"
*"Sherlock Holmes"
*"Sherlock Meets the Phantom"
*"Slambo"
*"The Snake in the Grass"
*"Snow White"
*"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
*"Song of the Mounties"
*"Spring Break"
*"Squad Room"
*"Squad Room Blues"
*"Stop That Villain!"
*"Stop the Presses!"
*"Summer's In the Air"
*"Sundown Alley"
*"Sunset Trail"
*"Teenage Night Of Living Horror"
*"Teens in Tinseltown"
*"This Old House"
*"Those Wedding Bells Shall Not Ring Out"
*"Tied to the Tracks"
*"Time and Time Again"
*"The Time Machine"
*"Toby Tyler"
*"Toga! Toga! Toga!"
*"Trapped in a Villain's Web"
*"Treachery at Cartilage Creek"
*"The Trunk and All That Jazz"
*"Trouble in Tumbleweed"
*"Tumbleweeds"
*"Under Jekyll's Hyde"
*"Unhappily Ever After"
*"The Villain Wore a Dirty Shirt"
*"Wagon Wheels a-Rollin"
*"Wagon Wheels West"
*"Wash Your Troubles Away"
*"We Like It Here"
*"Welcome to Bedside Manor"
*"Westward, Whoa!"
*"Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?"
*"Widow's Walk"
*"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"
*"Wrangler Ranch"
*"Yard Sale"
*"You Ain't Nothin' But A Werewolf"
*"You Can't Stamp Out Love"
*"Young Dracula"
*"Yours Truly, Jack Frost"
*"Zorro's Back in Town"
*"The Zombie"

Awards and honors

Grants

*Office of Advanced Drama Research
*National Endowment for the Arts
*American Broadcasting Company

Awards

*Wyoming's American Heritage Center
*Emerson College
*Nederlander Production Company

References

* [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/42487.html Kelly's obituary in "Playbill"]
* [http://www.pioneerdrama.com/stuff/westword/feat1-3.html Article about Kelly's plays with Francoeur, especially "Oz!"]

External links

* [http://www.pioneerdrama.com/authordetail.asp?ac=KELLYTIMLT Tim Kelly at Pioneer Drama]
* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsK/kelly-tim.html The Playwrights Database: Tim Kelly]
* [http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/AuthorBio.php?titlelink=9503 Dramatic Publishing]
* [http://www.filmreference.com/film/57/Tim-Kelly.html Tim Kelly Biography]


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