Here's what Lori Kee is up to...
Upcoming Directing:
Brave People
by Allan Staples
Sam French Short Play Festival
Prelim Round
August 14th 8pm
The Vineyard's Dimson Theatre
https://concordtheatricals.ludus.com/show_page.php?show_id=200457573
A Dream Beyond the Pain
by Jonathon Ward
more info to come
Short Film Projects in the works - stay tuned...
Recent Directing:
Candlelight World Premiere by John Patrick Shanley November -December 2021!
May 2021 (available on Youtube)
Xavier Galva's
Carte Blanche or For The Love of God
4 episodes to make you laugh and think
Melissa Skirboll's
Battered Fedora ESTrogenius
Oct 2020/ April 2021
"Sirocco"
By John Jiler
The Actors Studio January 2021
"Snail Shell"
by Jennifer Houlton
The Actors Studio June 2020
Chasing the Light by Alina Rios
TROU Nylon Fusion
The Listening Room
by Michaela Jeffery
at the New Ohio Theater
Nov. & Dec 2019
(Awarded one of TOP 10 play productions in NYC for 2019 by Reviews from the Underground. )
At the Actors Studio PDU
October 2019
"Numbers"
by Carolyn Boris Krimsky
and
May 2019
"A Day to be Someone Else"
by Greg Paul
The Return of ... THE CHAPLIN PLAYS-- A Double Feature
June 2019
at the The Episcopal Actors'
Guild of America
In Character by Kate McMorran
Hands On by Janet Bentley
for Nylon fusion's This Rounds On Us March 2019
Director Member
Actors Studio
Playwright Directors Unit
The Chaplin Plays: A Double Feature
February 26, 2019 at Birdland
*Winner:Outstanding Direction of a Staged Reading for:
December 2018 -
The ID-iots Holiday Spectacular
October 2018 -- premiere of
JAPANESE PORNO
by John Patrick Shanley
with David Elliott
The Night Sky
by Eugenie Carabatsos
The Rocking Chair by Meghan Jones
at The Shelter PEEP Show
July/August 2018
Tales with Teeth - Nylon's Nigro Nightmares - The Nutcracker by Don Nigro
@ Planet Connections
NYLON's The Best of This Rounds on Us
directed
Time Fixers by Adam Sullivan
Chain Link by Deb Hiett
Final Request by Tariq Hamami
Surly Bonds of Earth by Janet Bentley
Youth Hostel by Alisha Silver
French Waitress by John Patrick Shanley (with Janet Bentley)
New Perspectives Womens Work Short Play Lab
August 6th - 11th
Waiting Room by
Alison Lowenstein
May 2018
A Peregrine Falls by Leegrid Stevens
Actors Studio
April 2018
SWIPE a new musical
by Maggie Diaz Bofill
Tribeca Performing Arts Center
January 2018
The Flower or the Bee
By Greg Paul
Actors Studio PDU
Tar Beach
by Tammy Ryan
At La Mama
Mother Fucking O'Malley's
By Kate Moira Ryan
December 2017
Violet
by Jaqueline Wright
Soon to Rot
by Jacob Rice
October 2017
Eddie and Lorraine
by Darrah Cloud
Hudson Valley Sticky
June/ July 2017
Conservation Theatre: Fresh from Africa
by Bricken Sparacino
PCTF/ The Flamboyan/San Clemente
March/April 2017
Luft Gangster (off bway)
by Lowell Byers
Directed by Austin Pendleton
Associate Director Lori Kee
The Sheen Center
February 2017
Full Effect by Robert McEvily
August Day by Janet Bentley
November 2016
Tramp on a Tightrope By Don Nigro
United Solo Theatre Row
September 2016
The Chaplin Plays by Don Nigro
Dream Up Festival Theatre for the New City
Nylon Fusion Theatre Company
Short Play Festival Connect/Disconnect:
Cafe D' Automatique by Dave Hanson
Final Request by Tariq Hamami
July 2016
Before by Penny Jackson
Atlantic Theatre Company - Playwrights for a Cause
June- July 2016
A Light in the Dark by Wendy Mae Shelton
** Winner Outstanding Direction PCTF
The Chaplin Plays: two new Don Nigro plays featuring Ivette Dumeng and Tatyana Kot... ** Winner outstanding Overall Production Nominated for Outstanding Direction
(Both at Paradise Factory as part of Planet Connections Festivity)
March & April 2016
365 WOMEN NYC
@ Theatre for a New City & 13th Street Rep
Blood Sisters by Robin Rice
February 2016: "Crush" by Yasmine Lever and "The Surly Bonds of Earth" by Janet Bentley
For Nylon Fusion Time Travel 1970-1990
January 2016:"The Glorious Gloria" by Penny Jackson for T. Schrieber Studios Schreiber Shorts.
All Images Al Foote III
Acting:
Lori will be appearing in the feature The Salting by Eddie Yellin
currently in preproduction
UPDATING UNDERWAY!
April / May 2021
"Reconceptions"
for New Circle Rep in
Arlene Hutton's
Lola Lies to Corky
directed by Sasha Nanus
March 2021
For the The Seeing Place Theatre as part of a terrific ensemble she was thrilled to take
on the role of a lifetime:
Tracey in
SWEAT by Lynn Nottage directed by Brandon Walker
The production received rave reviews below is an excerpt from one by Philip Dorian link here
Fall of 2019 -- Lori was thrilled and honored to be chosen to selected to participate in 2 month long invite only class with CD Julie Tucker !!!
It was an amazing experience!
Lori jumped into the role of Melissa
in Andrew Heinze's I Can't Help It.
TADA! Nylon Fusion in October 2019.
She was thrilled to reprise her role in
"According to the Chorus" by Arlene Hutton, directed by Chris Goutman this February 2019 for New Circle Rep in The Sandbox. What a joy that was!
November 2018 Lori appeared as Helen in
A Bushwick State of Mind by Roy E Barry
@ The Actors Studio. Directed by Ivette Dumeng
JULY/ August 2018:
The Wife to the Headless Horseman by Don Nigro
Tales with Teeth - Nylon's Nigro Nightmares
@ Planet Connections
**Nominated - Outstanding Actress in a One Act/ Solo performance
Lori became an actor member
of New York Madness!
MAY 2018 -- Splendid Grace by Charlotte Colavin
Directed by Melissa Skirboll- New Perspectives Theatre CO
October 2017
Bargoyles Hudson Valley Sticky
by David Simpatico & Bill Flatley
July 2017 Hudson Valley Sticky
The Outcasts
by Samantha Jones
Directed by Samantha Jones
February 2017
Donuts and Other F- Words.
by Stanely Toledo
Directed by Laura Pruden
At The Gene Frankel Nylon Fusion
Montana by Natalie Menna Sept 2016 For Nylon Fusion's This Round's on Us and at Planet Connections Festivity June- July 2016.
She reprised her role as celebrated author Jane Austen-- March 2016 at the Kraine Theater when the girls from the "Jane Games" took over [By The Mummers] Present Your L8 Show! (The Jane Games was an official selection of the NYC & DC Web Fests 2015!)
Here's Lori playing Jane Austen, host of
The Jane Games.
Here is the trailer: click me
The Jane Games website LINK HERE.
October 2015 - Lori originated the role of Dr. Neery in "Comes a Faery" by James McLindon at the New Ohio Theatre.
August 2015: Lori played Sarah in Face Value by David Csontos, directed by Janet Bentley, at TADA!
June 2015: Principal VanPatten in Name Calling is for Nazis by Joseph Samuel Wright for Nylon Fusion at the Gene Frankel Theatre.
and
"Her Speech" by Erik Ehn for Playwrights for a Cause at NY Theatre Workshop.
April 2015: "Epitaph" by Barbara Bleier directed by Melissa Skirball for Abingdon's Swan Day celebration, and Penny Jackson's play"We Were Very Merry" directed by Glory Kadigan at the Sheen Center for 365 Women.
February 2015: Lori played the titular role in "Beatrix Potter Must Die" by Patrick Gabridge, directed by Joan Kane. (TADA! for Nylon Fusion)