Director David Orace Kelly, an international performerand teacher, calls the Pacific Northwest his home. He has been coaching and teaching acting and performance since 1996. His professional experience ranges from director, to featured juggler, to acting and fight direction, to dance and choreography, to scenic and lighting design.


He has trained at Naropa University, where he earned his BFA in performance, as well as the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theater and Cornish College of the Arts.


Kelly has been seen several independent films and toured as a solo performer at numerous festivals and guest taught across the country. Over his ten year career as a solo performer he was a featured juggler in the shows “Z the Masked Musical” and Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass,” under the direction of Maron Alsop. He has performed with The Flying Karamazov Brothers, opened for the Kingsmen, and toured with the New Old Time Chautauqua.


He is currently working at Explorer West Middle School teaching drama and theater arts

 

 

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