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The audience was invited to join in group movement at the end. GSW 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/1741902909049-UEBZZCDOV5SM9WHWPUOU/IMG_0156.JPEG work - Campfire A collaboration between the theater and english departments at GSW 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/1741902555750-WMAL8KGTKB35YOD18IRV/IMG_3023.JPG work - Unreadable Narratives A collaborative assignment with the English department at GSW. English students “write” unreadable narratives, in some cases visual works, and the Theater students interpret and adapt them into short performances. YARN DANCE created by Aidan and Cass, GSW 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/1741902814575-4DAJKGUMEFE1B3OYS9N6/IMG_7137.JPG work - not goodbye An end-of-session theatrical ritual. GSW 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/7ef037aa-7c6f-4cc6-8844-dacabe37a39f/64721535_2525336704184243_3581970860501630976_n.jpg work - The One Minute Play Festival Recurring director, curator, and contributing writer 2016-2020. Produced by Artistic Director Dominic D’Andrea. I directed short plays by Becca Blackwell, Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Diana Oh, Jonathan Alexandratos, and more. Joined 1MPF for NY Indie Theater community nights, rapid-response projects after the 2016 election, and queer-centered festivals. Pictured: The STONEWALL 50 One Minute Play Festival featuring the work of all-queer playwrights, directors, and actors at Queens Museum. 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/31b4a43c-732c-4cbf-9f76-515f3749b198/SB-Sept22-45.jpg work - Scenes from Fuente Ovejuna for SHAKESBEER! Written by Lope de Vega, scenes adapted and directed for pub crawl by Katie Kay Chelena. 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Dir. James Rutherford. Intimacy Direction by Katie Kay Chelena. Details TBA 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/2bf87d11-e3e7-427b-8af8-7dc20484f192/IMG_1643.jpg work - MEAT INJECTION Created by C. Bain. Movement Direction by Katie Kay Chelena. Dixon Place, New York, NY. // 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/035edb3e-6d1c-4a78-afaa-91ad6ba148e0/NYU_GOT_023.jpg work - REASONS TO STAY ALIVE Public performance in Washington Square Park, 2021 // Created during my Arts Politics graduate research at NYU under Karen Finley. This performance imagined what a more compassionate university response to student mental health crises might look like, then invited the public to write their own reasons to stay alive on ribbons and sew them onto my graduation gown. Photo by Narkita Wiley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/fe65984a-3c71-43b3-8912-81ea4841624c/unnamed.jpg work - RIOT GRRRL 1895 Emma Goldman time-travels, but she discovers that people are still fucking mansplaining her own work to her. A rage-fueled singalong. // Created for Ayun Halliday’s NECROMANCERS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN at The Tank // New York, NY // 2019 Photo by Ayun Halliday https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/e94744dd-704e-4873-beb5-33f7d70b60d2/54727897_1196868187164675_2993847334959316992_n.jpg work - PRINCESS + POMEGRANATE A girl is trapped in a cage. She shapeshifts her way out, catches the moon, cracks it open like a pomegranate to share. // Created for PPPPPPURIM (Prophetic Post-patriarchy Purim Performance Party) // House of Yes // 2018 Photo by Tucker Mitchell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/999c2a65-178a-4ffb-8f53-27b63d811e6b/Screenshot+2024-10-20+at+9.29.01+PM.png work - Singing Beach Written by Tina Howe // First Production - HERE Arts Center // New York, NY // 2017 Assisting dir. Ari Laura Kreith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/0db7dfae-dea7-474f-95ba-13cba55b94e4/images.jpg work - JULY HOUSE Written by Pat Robinson // New York Fringe // New York, NY // 2015 Assisting dir. Nathaniel P. Claridad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/b7be9a39-4a2f-4cef-84e5-df98b1da9cdd/Screenshot+2024-10-20+at+9.34.11+PM.png work - Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Written by Christopher Durang // Playmakers Rep // Chapel Hill, NC // 2014 Assisting dir. Libby Appel http://www.katiekaychelena.com/contact daily 0.75 2018-02-07 http://www.katiekaychelena.com/workshops daily 0.75 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/1dfcac5d-4176-4db3-b354-982bc804c1ce/bad+poet+2023+logo.png Workshops - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/1e7295f2-05c1-40fc-a567-331d2a429270/Bad+Poet+-+Feb+26.png Workshops - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.katiekaychelena.com/elsewhereapp daily 0.75 2022-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/4b5516a9-25ea-4246-b07f-3ac07f4f893e/The+Granddaughter+Edit+1.HEIC.jpg Elsewhere - work in process: the granddaughter edit The Granddaughter Edit (working title) is a series of blackout poems and text-based experiments using my late maternal grandmother’s 1,000+ page genealogy archive. Main themes/discoveries/explorations include women of Southern Appalachia, relationship between education and class, told/untold stories, and shared artmaking between living and dead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5730c9b162cd94614022adc4/df88283b-f711-4793-962e-c0a1c4b50fcf/IMG_7185.jpg Elsewhere - meet me at the [edge.of.the. woods] meet me at the [edge.of.the.woods] is a site-specific performance I created/facilitated for the North Carolina Governor’s School. In the campus botanical garden, the theater students performed 1-on-1 pieces built from the prompt- “tell me about a time you thought something was simple, but it was much more complicated than you knew.” The audience could choose their own path, so every audience member heard different stories in a different order. 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