Kelley Girod Email and Phone Number

Kelley Nicole Girod bioKelley Nicole Girod was recently appointed Director of New Work at the world famous Apollo theater. In addition Kelley continues to serve as Executive Director of OBIE award winning The Fire This Time Festival which she founded in 2009. Kelley Nicole Girod is also an award-winning playwright ( 2021 Sundance IDP Grant Recipient, Atlantic Launch New Play Commission 2019, Sheen Center Fellow 2019, Stein and Liberace Fellow 2007, John Golden Fellow 2008) whose work has been developed/presented at Atlantic Theater Company, Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, The Fire This Time Festival, Harlem 9, Primary Stages, Project Y, Poetic Theater Productions, Classical Theater of Harlem, Frigid NYC, Planet Connections Theater Festival, The Field, Dixon Place, and Stanford University’s TAPS Program. She is a 2020 nominee of the prestigious Paul Robeson Award. Kelley has also served as a guest lecturer at Yale School for Drama, Stanford University’s Theater Department, and Cal State, Fullerton. Kelley has also held the positions of Programming Associate at The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, and served as Producing Director at The Billie Holiday Theater from 2014-2015. In addition, Kelley is Editor of The Fire This Time Festival’s first anthology of plays published with Bloomsbury UK/Methuen Drama titled “25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival, A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Rebirth and Black Theater.” Kelley is a 2008 Graduate of Columbia’s MFA Playwriting Program.