Belloo Creative is an all-female, award-winning Australian theatre company that produces original contemporary works for stage and film.
Kathryn Kelly. Photo by Barbara Lowing.
KATHRYN KELLY
Belloo Creative Chair & Company Dramaturg
Kathryn Kelly is a dramaturg and theatre historian and she is currently a Lecturer at QUT in the Drama area in the Faculty of Creative Industries. Her research interests include dramaturgy and socially engaged, feminist and transcultural performance practices.
She completed her PhD on the Pedagogy of Dramaturgy in 2017 at the University of Queensland and has taught extensively in the last seven years at Institutions including, Western Australian Academy for the Performing Arts (WAAPA), Flinders University, Griffith University, and the Southbank Institute of Technology.
Her publications include a history of Australian dramaturgy 2000-2010 in Catching Australian Theatre in the 2000s (Australian Theatre Series, Bril) as well as with the Australasian Drama Studies journal, Social Alternatives, Fusions and various industry journals. She was a long-time Real Time contributor and continues to mentor young critics and dramaturgs.
Her current research projects include an international collaboration around climate crisis, The SAND Project. Outcomes from The SAND Project which will premiere in the Tokyo Performing Arts Market (TPAM) in February, 2020 and the Tokyo Tokyo Olympic Arts and Cultural Festival in June, 2020; Rovers Community Engagement which is a project to explore First Nations community engagement models for Australian performance using the 8ways model in collaboration with First Nation Artist Emily Coleman during its five-stop national tour and a project to support theatre criticism and critical discourse.
Her dramaturgy practice is in text-based theatre, contemporary performance and socially engaged practice. She is currently company dramaturg with award-winning, all-female theatre company, Belloo Creative, who are the Company in Residence at Queensland Theatre: http://www.belloocreative.com and whose adaptation of Phaedre is part of the 2020 season.
She has worked for every major festival and theatre company in Queensland; nationally for Theatreworks (Melbourne); Malthouse (Melbourne); Playwrighting Australia (Sydney) and the Darwin Writers Centre and internationally for the Factory Theatre and Cahoots Theatre Projects in Toronto, Canada.
Formerly, she has worked as CEO of Playlab (2004-2008), Australia’s second largest theatrical publisher and as Resident Artist for World Interplay, which was the largest festival for young playwrights in the world. She has also worked for Arts Queensland and other arts organisations in her twenty-five years in the performance sector.