Kelly Maurer

Kelly Maurer is a founding member of the SITI Company (artistic directors, Anne Bogart, Ellen Lauren and Leon Ingulsrud) based in New York City. SITI acting credits include Orestes, American Document (with the Martha Graham Dance Company), Radio Macbeth, La Dispute, Hay Fever, bobrauschenbergamerica, The Medium, Small Lives/Big Dreams, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Culture of Desire, and Cabin Pressure; performed at theatres including BAM, New York Theater Workshop, Dance Theater Workshop, The Joyce, P.S. 122, American Repertory Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, San Jose Rep., Walker Arts Center, Wexner Arts Center, The Getty, The Irish Life Theater Festival, Under the Radar (NYC’s Public Theater), Bobigny (Paris), Bonn Biennale and the Edinburgh Festival. Regional credits include Rainbow in And What of the Night (written and directed by Irene Fornes) at The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Hamlet at StageWest and Christine in Miss Julie at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Internationally, she has toured with Tadashi Suzuki in the Suzuki Company of Toga’s Dionysus, performed the role of Hamlet at the Toga International Theater Festival and toured with director Robert Wilson’s Persephone. She performed the role of Jolly (as standby for Patti LuPone) in The Old Neighborhood on Broadway and Hermia in Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone at Playwrights Horizons. She also performed in An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein and The Water Engine at the Atlantic Theater. Kelly teaches the Suzuki Method of Actor Training and the Viewpoints Training at SITI, the Atlantic Theater Acting School, Columbia University, and at NYU. She has been a guest faculty member at the Juilliard School and has taught numerous workshops at universities and theatre companies around the U.S. and abroad. She holds a BFA in Theatre from Otterbein College and an MFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.