Writer
Playwright
Screenwriter
Advocate of courage, nuance and epiphanies
Barbara Kelly was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela to her Hungarian mother and British father, and now lives in Toronto, Canada. One passport says she’s Canadian, another says she’s British. But Barbara knows she’s really a global citizen.
Standing out in the crowd…
. . . as a storyteller in theatre, film and TV. Theatre highlights: Semi-finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference; semi-finalist, Thomas Wolfe International Playwriting Competition; Incubated Reading Series, Broadway Bound Theatre Festival; semi-finalist, Theatre Resources Endowed (TRU) Reading Series. Film highlights: six film options in U.S. , Canada and Denmark, with two in pre-production; film adaptation of own play made Top Ten of Canadian Film Fest’s Harold Greenberg Screenplay Competition; commissioned to adapt a W.O. Mitchell play for film; story-edited film adaptation of author Jay McInerney's Story of My Life. TV highlights: pilot and bible for World War II true-life story; spec sci-fi thriller (pilot episode and bible) previously under short-term option.