OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

KELLY MAXNER

OFF BROADWAY AT 59 E 59 (2017)   –  Choreography
MARTHA'S VINEYARD (2016)  –  Choreography
THEATER ALLIANCE (2015)  –  Chorgeography

Kelly Maxner has choreographed/directed for the Golden Mean Theater (LA), Great Lakes Theater Festival, Dallas Theater Center, One Arm Red (NYC), the Ankara State Opera and Ballet’s Modern Dance Turkey, Dans Fabrikasi (Istanbul), and Theater Alliance of Washington DC. He won the Helen Hayes for choreography for Occupied Territories and is a two-time Helen Hayes Award Nominee for his choreographic work on Ovid and Mary’s Wedding (Theater Alliance). He is a nominee for the Leon Rabin Award for choreography for A Christmas Carol. Kelly has taught acting clinics to the acrobats for Franco Dragone’s production of House of Dancing Water in Belgium and Macau. As a performer, Kelly has performed in Taiwan, Turkey, Egypt and across the USA. Kelly is on faculty in the Drama Department at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Kelly holds two BFA degrees from the UNC School of the Arts: the first in Contemporary Dance, and the second in Drama (Directing). He holds an MFA in Choreography from Smith College.