 Kelly DuMar, began writing plays just after publishing her non-fiction book, Before You Forget - The Wisdom of Writing Diaries for Your Children in 2001. As a psychotherapist for many years, Kelly expressed her passion for theater by directing psychodramas in therapeutic settings. Currently, she devotes her time to writing plays and offering Diary Door writing workshops, and she has been a member of Playwrights' Platform since 2001, and is currently serving as Interim President.
Selected Play Credits: Hothouse, a finalist for the Arts and Letters Prizes, The Robert Lehan Award, and the Nantucket Short Play Festival, was produced by the Hovey Summer Arts Festival, 2005, and is published by Heuer Publishing (www.hitplays.com). Hovey also produced Kelly's one-act play, What We Save, in July 2006. Kelly's full-length play, Weekend at the Dreaming Cloud, has been a finalist in The John Gassner New Play Festival, Stony Brook Univ., NY, The Boston Actors Theatre, and is one one of four finalists in the Yellow Taxi Productions Susan McIntyre New Play Festival, NH. Bloom, produced by Playwright’s Platform Summer Festival, 2005, won the Playwrights' Choice Award, and was produced at the Philipstown Depot Festival, the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, The Acme New Works Festival, Flint City Theatre, MI, has been published by Heuer Publishing (www.hitplays.com) and was produced by Studio Playhouse, Newton Cable TV, and is available for airing. Kelly's original 10-minute play, Away Message, was selected for The New American Playwright’s Festival, Nashua, The 15-Minute Festival, Belfast, ME, The Havermeyer Playwright’s Competition, Greenwich, CT, and the Ritalin Readings, Theatre Coop, Somerville. Away Message, now a full-length play, includes two scenes that have been produced: New Digs won the Playwrights' Choice Award at The Playwrights' Platform Summer Festival, 2006, and This Byte was produced by the 10 by 10 in the Triangle Festival, NC, 2006. Spa Reservations was produced by the Boston Theatre Marathon, 2004. Practicing Peace, a finalist in the Theatre Oxford Ten Minute Play Contest, was produced by the Playwright’s Platform Summer Festival, 2003, where it won the Audience Choice Award and is published by Brooklyn Publishing.
Kelly has a Master's Degree in Education from Harvard University, and she's a certified psychodramatist, a Fellow in the American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, and a member of the National Association for Poetry Therapy and a member of the International Centre for Women Playwrights.
Kelly lives with her husband, three children, and dog Flash on the Charles River in Sherborn, MA. Her webpage is Kelly DuMar, her blog is Stagedoor Blog, and you can e-mail her at diarydoor@aol.com. |