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As part of the 2011 annual professional psychodrama conference, Kelly will present her one-woman comedy, Gifts for the Goddess of Illusion, featuring Aimee Rose Ranger as ENVIA!, during a conference session on April 29, in Clearwater Florida.
In this comedic coming of age story, ENVIA!, a spirited, aspiring actor, has just been cast in Her Very Own Show. In a series of hilarious and poignant episodes, ENVIA! exposes the twists and tricks of living her life in the spirit of an artist who hopes it's never too late to have a satisfying childhood. ENVIA! enacts each episode of Her Very Own Show from a stage of surplus reality where it's always possible to have a do-over, exploring what actually happened - and - what she wishes had happened. Prompted by questions she "solicits" from the audience, ENVIA! reenacts pivotal encounters from her childhood and young adulthood, including:
Conjuring humor, improvisation, and theatrical magic, ENVIA! inspires her audience to embrace creativity, spontaneity and imagination as forces for change and growth in their own lives.
Tonya Quillen, TEP and Kelly will facilitate a post-show exploration illustrating the psychodramatic origin of the play’s themes. Kelly is a certified psychodramatist, a Fellow in ASGPP, a member of Playback Northamerica, and a member of the Dramatists Guild whose plays have been published and produced around the US and Toronto. Kelly is also the founder and co-producer of the Our Voices Celebration of Boston Area Women's Playwrights, now in its 6th year.
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Two of Kelly's ENVIA! Episodes, Your Gullibility and Your Free Sample, will be performed by Aimee Rose Ranger as part of the 5th Annual Our Voices Festival at Regis College Fine Arts Center Black Box, Weston, MA, on March 26, 2011, at 7:00 p.m.
This annual festival of staged readings of Boston area women playwrights is produced by festival founder, Kelly DuMar, Ann Garvin of Image Theater, and Wendy Lement, playwright and Regis College Theatre Department Chair. The festival is fortunate to have found a new home at Regis College where it will be held for its second year in the beautiful Fine Arts Center.
This year, guest playwright and dramaturge, Sybil Roberts Williams, who teaches playwrighting at American University in Washington, D.C., returns to the festival with a reading of one of her own plays, Zimbabwe: Or She Talks To Bob Marley. Sybil will facilitate discussion of the plays in the morning and evening workshops.
The playwrights are grateful for the many talented Boston area actors who will be featured in the play readings which will be directed by a variety of skillful, imaginative Boston area directors. The festival is free & open to the public and the evening audience is also invited to join the playwrights at a pre-show cheese & chocolate reception at 6:30 in the Fine Arts Center lobby.
One of the unique features of the Our Voices Festival is that each partipating playwright presents the audience with her Artist Statement prior to the performance of her play, offering insight into her inspiration, vision and creative process. The following playwrights and plays will be presented (order of plays TBD):
Workshop Readings: 10:30-12:15
Leanne Calderone, Does Fate Exist? (Short play)
Sandra Weintraub, Coffee Shop Romance, (Short play)
Phyllis Rittner, Cheryl Ann, (Monologue)
Audience~Playwright Cheese & Fruit Reception 6:30-7:00 p.m.
Staged Readings with Audience Talk-back: 7:00-9:45 p.m.
Kelly DuMar, ENVIA! Episodes (Selected Monologues)
Deirdre Girard, Defensive Wounds, (10-minute play)
G.L. Horton, Kiss the Twins, (10-minute play)
Madge Kaplan, The Last Appointment, (Excerpt)
Wendy Lement, Wedding Dreams, (Excerpt)
Lida McGirr, Poker God, (Monologue)
Phyllis Rittner, Going Down, (10-minute Play)
Sybil Roberts, Zimbabwe: Or She Talks To Bob Marley, (10-minute Play)
Ellen Davis Sullivan, Here’s the Deal, (10-Minute Play)
We hope to see you at Our Voices V at the Fine Arts Center at Regis College, 235 Wellesley Street, Weston, MA, in the Black Box! For more information, contact Kelly DuMar at (508) 647-0596 or go to Our Voices.
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Fem Noire, The Festival of Women Playwrights, will conclude the weeklong festivities of Lowell Womens Week with plays performed in downtown Lowell, the new home fo the Artists League of Lowell. Show is at 8:00 p.m.
Image Theater is proud to present short plays and monologues by: June Bowser- Barrett, Kelly DuMar, Melinda Lopez, Karla Sorenson, Leslie Powell, Hortense Gerardo, Gail Phaneuf, Anne Furtado & Sarah Coakley, Monica Bauer, and Debbie Roy.The plays will be performed at the (Artist
League of Lowell) ALL Arts Gallery, literally surrounded by the original visual artwork by local women artists. ALL Arts Gallery is located at 22 Shattuck Street, Lowell.
All tickets are $15, or $10 with a “Lowell Women’s Week” button.
For more information about Fem Noire, or tickets, call 978-441-0102.
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One of Kelly's ENVIA! Episodes, Your Honor, will be performed as part of the Fem Noire Festival of Women Playwrights, produced by Ann Garvin of Image Theater in Lowell, MA, March 11 & 12, 2011.
In Your Honor, a comic episode from Kelly's one-woman show, Gifts for the Goddess of Illusion, Young ENVIA! saves her divorcing parents from a potential custody battle.
Fem Noire will conclude the weeklong festivities of Lowell Womens Week and the plays will be performed at 22 Shattuck Street, downtown Lowell, the new home fo the Artists League of Lowell ( and the former Revolving Museum space).
For more information about Fem Noire, or tickets, call 978-441-0102.
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Young ENVIA!'s Episodes, monologues from Kelly DuMar's one-woman show, Gifts for the Goddess of Illusion, will be performed by Franci DuMar on January 29, 2011, at 8 p.m., as part of Atlantis Playmakers Open Stage Night. Selected episodes include:
Yours Truely - Young ENVIA! searches her soul in a letter to the Goddess of Illusion
Your Gullibility - Young ENVIA! sacrifices her gullibility to become a better actor
Your Honor -Young ENVIA! saves her divorcing parents from a potential custody battle
Your Support -Young ENVIA! amends her Special Ed Plan
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Kelly's ten-minute serio-comedy, This Byte, will be directed by Valentine Aprile in her upcoming URN Network Alliance Theater Lab NYC on Nov. 14, 2010, 5:00 p.m. at the Shetler Theatre, 244 W 54th St # 12, NYC. Tickets are $15.
Other short plays included in the evening are : The Skewed Picture by Andrew Biss, and Jane Doe Pays a Visit by Steve Gold.This Byte was previously produced by the 10 by 10 in the Triangle Play Festival.
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Selections from Kelly's comedy, ENVIA!, (a full-length work in progress) will be performed as part of the Island Theatre Workshop's annual Pick of the Crop Festival, Martha's Vineyard, Oct 22, and Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m., and Oct. 24, and Oct. 31 at 3:00 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theater, Vineyard Haven. ENVIA's selected episodes, directed by Lee Fierro, include: Your Casting Call, Your Divine Intervention, Your Zip Code and Your Prognosis.
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Two of Kelly's comic scenes from her one-act comedy for youth, The Adventures of Rocky & Skye, have been published in the Smith & Kraus Winners Competition Series V. 2: Award-Winning 90-Second Comic Scenes, Ages 4-12, Edited by Janet B. Milstein: Cloud Jumping and The Baby Artists.
Be seriously, hilariously scene!
Whether you're competing in a competition, auditioning for an agent, showing-off in a showcase, or studying sitcoms and scenes, this is the #1 comic sourcebook for you. The scenes in this unique new series were written specifically for real kids to use at real competitions, and they were really well-received! Awards were won, callbacks received, and judges were rolling in the aisles! Now it's your turn to bring these competition-tested, side-splitting scenes to life! Baffling babies, bossy birthday girls, & bullying brothers are just the beginning! Guaranteed to make even the toughest audiences erupt into laughter! So when it comes to choosing scenes, why settle for anything less than Winners!
FEATURES OF THIS BOOK INCLUDE:
• All 90-second scenes and under to fit auditions, competitions & young kids' memorization capabilities
• All comic material
• Ages 4-12
• No props or costumes required
• No foul language
• A variety of voices written by numerous, talented writers
• Authentic material you can relate to because it was written for real students
• Award-winning scenes that are new to the public, but have been put to the test
• Edited by best-selling monologue book author, Janet B. Milstein
• Great for competitions, auditions, showcases, sitcom & scene study
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Two one-minute comic monologues for middle school girls from Kelly's one-act comedy for youth, The Adventures of Rocky & Skye, recently published by YouthPLAYS, are available for download FREE at YouthPLAYS. You can read and download the monologues by SKYE and RATANI on picture day, as well as preview the entire play which includes some one-minute comic skits which can be performed by as duets in youth drama festivals and competitions.
"YouthPLAYS is a unique coalition of award-winning professional dramatists and exciting new discoveries dedicated to expanding the vocabulary of theatre for young actors and audiences and doing it in an environmentally and budget-friendly way. Read all of our plays electronically for free in their entirety. Like what you see? Pay only royalties--no book fees--and print only what you need from our electronic files. Our works range from plays for teens and children that are written for young performers, to plays for adult actors to perform for young audiences. They include full-length plays and musicals, one-acts, monologues and duets that make ideal choices for production and competition. All of the plays and musicals available through YouthPLAYS are appropriate for young people and available to schools, theatres and institutions serving young audiences and/or actors worldwide."
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