Shawna Mefferd Kelty
SUNY Plattsburgh One Act Lottery Play Respondent
Plattsburgh, NY
Shawna is a director-dramaturg, actor, and chair of the theatre department at SUNY Plattsburgh. She teaches directing, dramatic literature, history, and performance. She is also a certified yoga instructor (200RYT/RPYT).
As an artist, she works primarily in new play development at universities and on some professional stages, and through several theatre organizations like ATHE, MATC, Great Plains Theatre Conference, and the Valdez Theatre Conference. Basically, Shawna loves working with playwrights on the stories they tell and the worlds they invent. Her recent directing projects include Joe Stollenwerk's Jan and Joe, the world premiere of Kristen Ritter's Nefarious, and Caitlin Turnage's In a Darkroom, The Lord Knows. Upcoming projects include directing Emily Krause's Something for the Fish (staged readings) and artistic direction for SUNY Plattsburgh's Climate Play Festival (she's also directing a 10-minute play along with her student directors...because new plays!!).
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