Juliana Francis

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rdf:langString Juliana Francis

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rdf:langString Juliana Francis, also known as Julianna Francis or Juliana Francis-Kelly, is an American playwright and actress. She is the recipient of an Obie Award for her performance in Richard Foreman's ‘Maria Del Bosco’, and a Dramalogue Award for Reza Abdoh's The Hip-hop Waltz of Eurydice. She has also performed with Foreman's Ontological Hysteric Theater and with the Abdoh's Dar A Luz company, of which she was a founding member. Abdoh's death, Francis-Kelly began writing plays and screenplays. Her first play ‘Go Go Go’ (in which she also performed) was directed by Anne Bogart, performed at PS 122 in New York City and at the London International Festival of Theatre at the Institute for Contemporary Art I.C.A. Go Go Go was published by Theater Forum Magazine and T3 in Europe. It was subsequently translated into Greek and performed by actress in Athens and in Kiel, Germany. Her second play, Box, was directed by Anthony Torn and performed at The Women's Project. Other plays she was involved in include The Ontological Hysteric (published in the anthology by Smith & Kraus); an Italian-language version was performed at the Fontanon Festival in Rome. The Baddest Natashas, also directed by Torn, was performed at The Ontological Hysteric and published by Open City. Saint Latrice, which she also directed, was performed at The Collapsible Hole and at PS 122. A German-language version was performed in Graz, Austria. In 2004, Francis-Kelly received a Sundance Screenwriting Fellowship to develop Saint Latrice into a screenplay for The Killer Films Company.

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