Emruz Festival in collaboration with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater:

Theater Director and Emruz Co-Curator Shadi Ghaheri will be in Conversation with the Theater Artist Juliana Frances Kelly on how to create a work that is entrancing.
Language: English Duration: 60 minutes Time: 3:00 PM EST, 7:00 PM GMT 10:30 PM Tehran

Please join us via Zoom

"No matter how harsh the creation is you must give it as a gift"

"To create a world that is complete"

"To create a work that is entrancing" 

Juliana Francis Kelly has originated roles for many great writer/ directors in the U.S, Asia, and Europe, including Reza Abdoh (as a founding member of the internationally renowned Dar A Luz Company); Richard Foreman (in “Paradise Hotel;” “Bad Boy Nietzsche!”; “King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe” and “Maria Del Bosco” – for which she received an OBIE Award) and for Karin Coonrod, Bertrand Mandico, Anne Bogart, Young Jean Lee, Pavol Liska, and Kelly Copper, Lear DeBessonet, Normandy Sherwood, Hal Hartley, Theater of War, Marie Losier in collaboration with Guy Maddin, and David Michalek (for Lincoln Center Festival’s “Portraits in Dramatic Time.”) Ms. Kelly also writes plays and performances. Her plays include “The Reenactors”, directed by Tony Torn at Abrons Arts Center; “Go Go Go”, directed by Anne Bogart for PS 122, and reprised at The Institute of Contemporary Art for London International Festival of Theater; “Box”, directed by Torn and performed at The Women’s Project, PS 122; and The Fontanon Festival in Italy; and “The Baddest Natashas”, performed at The Ontological Theater and published by Open City Magazine. Her plays have been translated into Italian, Greek, German and Norwegian, and published in the U.S. and Europe. Ms. Kelly has designed and led theater workshops for The Liberian Cultural Association (Park Hill, Staten Island); for incarcerated youth and adults; and for theTrinity/LaMaMa semester in NYC program. She also builds mixed-media dolls, one of which resides in the American Museum of Natural History’s interactive educational wing.