JOHN KELLY

John Kelly (John/Persephone in Orepheus X) previously appeared at the A.R.T. as Cupid in Dido, Queen of Carthage (Elliot Norton Award for Best Actor). He is a performance artist whose works have garnered him two Bessie (New York Dance and Performance) Awards, two Obie Awards, the American Choreographer Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2001 CalArts Alpert Award in Dance/Performance. He created the role of Bartell D'Arcy in the Broadway production and national tour of James Joyce's The Dead; created the role of Mr. Crime in Art Speigleman's Drawn To Death; and toured internationally in the role of the Narrator in John Cage's 1982 radio play  "Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Eric Satie: An Alphabet."  He has given three solo vocal recitals at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, and performed with the San Francisco Symphony.  He collaborated and recorded with The Jazz Passengers ("Jazz Passengers In Love"); with composer David Del Tredici (as lyricist and vocalist on "Secret Music"); and Laurie Anderson ("Life On A String"). He has also collaborated with composers Richard Peaslee, Michael Torke, Ari Frankel, and Richard Einhorn. His Joni Mitchell opus was the opening act for Natalie Merchant's "Ophelia" tour. Opera directing credits include Matthew Locke's Baroque Masque Cupid And Death (Opera at the Academy in 1993), The Name On The Tip Of The Tongue (Glej Theatre of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1998), and Moondrunk (Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, for Lincoln Center in 1999). His books include JOHN KELLY, an autobiography. He recently completed a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

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