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Kelleen Moriarty

THEATRE DIRECTOR

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About Me

I am a queer, disabled theatre director & dramaturg straddling Washington, DC and New York City.

Working across theatrical mediums to tell the stories of historically underrepresented groups by both using and twisting traditional narratives, I strive to place the desires, fears, lives, and history of women, queer people, and disabled people at the center of my work through rigorous exploration and deep collaboration.

My mission is to tell stories that are curious, compassionate, and collaborative in both process and product. As a queer and disabled woman, I am fueled to embrace radical authenticity in my storytelling and to make vibrant work that is grounded in the dramaturgy of our oppression and survival.

I am developing a piece about the medical system’s negligence of women’s pain, utilizing the legal and medical documents from the malpractice suit surrounding my grandmother’s death. From the intentionally dehumanizing language of these found medical and legal documents, I am striving to tell a deeply human and personal story.

Also in development is a new multi-modal work devised from the text of Oscar Wilde’s lost and fragmented play, La Sainte Courtisane. This piece is a multi-media collage that brings the text into conversation with modern explorations of sexuality, spirituality, and what it means to really believe something.

My work has been presented at VoxLab and The Assembly’s Harpo’s Salon. I am a former member of Mercury Store’s Winter 2025 and Fall 2022 Directing Lab, and a former Directing Fellow at Westport Country Playhouse. I love tea, baseball, and podcasts.

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Upcoming/Recent:

DIRECTOR the moon rituals at The Tank

DIRECTOR Or The Woman Covered In Jewels at VoxFest

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Untitled Softball Play (Workshop) at New Georges

DRAMATURG Sex & The Southeast at The Tank

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