Bob Kelly

Bob Kelly is a Twin Cities-based composer, pianist, and music director. His second EP It Begins, It Begins was released on streaming services in October 2024. Works of musical theatre include Confessions (with Jonathan Keebler, based on the memoir Confessions of a Gay Priest by Tom Rastrelli)m gilgamesh & the mosquito (with Sam Chanse); Waiting... a song cycle (with Kelly Pomeroy); and the short musical film A Most Average Musical (with Talia Berger and Jonathan Keebler), which was recently published as part of the Theatre Now New York (TNNY) anthology The 10-Minute Musical and is available to license through MTI.

Bob is a member of the TNNY Musical Writers Lab, and his work has been supported by NAMT, the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, The Gallery Players, Prospect Theater Company, Leviathan Lab, NY Theatre Barn, NYU CDP Series, New Musicals Inc., and the Festival of New American Musicals in Los Angeles.

Bob was the 2013 recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Max Dreyfus Scholarship for musical theatre composition, and in 2020 he was a finalist for the Johnny Mercer Foundation’s Songwriters Project. His work as a music director encompasses musical theatre productions and educational programs throughout New York City and across the country.

Bob is from the Twin Cities, MN, and is a graduate of St. Olaf College and the NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.