Dennis Kelly
| Dennis Kelly | |
|---|---|
| Born |
16 November 1969 Barnet, London, England |
| Occupation | Playwright, film and television scriptwriter |
| Nationality | British |
| Notable works |
Debris (2003) Love and Money (2006) Osama the Hero (2005) DNA (2008) Orphans (2009) Matilda the Musical (2010) Utopia (2013) |
Dennis Kelly (born November 16, 1969) is a British writer for film, television and theatre. He is perhaps best known for co-writing BBC Three's sitcom Pulling with actress Sharon Horgan, for co-writing Matilda the Musical with comedian Tim Minchin, and for the Channel 4 conspiracy thriller Utopia.
Kelly grew up in Barnet, North London, in an Irish family and was brought up a Catholic. One of five children, he left school at 16 to work in Sainsbury's.
While working in supermarkets, he discovered theatre when he joined a local youth group, the Barnet Drama Centre. At the age of 30, he graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London with First Class Honours in Drama and Theatre Arts.
Kelly wrote his first play Debris when he was 30; he says he wrote it imagining he'd give himself a part. Staged at Theatre 503 in 2003, it transferred the next year to Battersea Arts Centre. It was well received and he went on to write the controversially titled Osama the Hero which was produced by Hampstead Theatre, beginning a long-running relationship with the theatre that he would return to often.
He wrote After the End in 2005. It was produced by Paines Plough in his first out of London production at the Traverse, though it later came to the Bush Theatre before going on a tour of the UK and internationally in 2006.
Love and Money, arguably one of his most famous plays, was staged at the Royal Exchange, Manchester and then at the Young Vic in 2006. That same year his sitcom Pulling, co-written and starring Sharon Horgan, aired on BBC Three. It received good ratings for the channel and was well reviewed, being nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for Best Situation Comedy in 2007.
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