Lori Kee

Lori Kee is an award winning actress and director.

She loves collaborating on new works.

DIRECTING:

Next up:
The Premiere of John Patrick Shanley's
Candlelight
for Nylon Fusion
November 27th - Dec 19th
at the New Ohio Theatre

Recent NYC DIRECTING credits: (see below for acting!)
May 2021 (available on Youtube)
Xavier Galva's
Carte Blanche or For The Love of God
4 episodes to make you laugh and think
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Melissa Skirboll's
Battered Fedora ESTrogenius
Oct 2020/ April 2021
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"Sirocco"
By John Jiler
The Actors Studio January 2021
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"Snail Shell"
by Jennifer Houlton
The Actors Studio June 2020

The Listening Room
by Michaela Jeffery
at the New Ohio Theater
Nov. & Dec 2019 for Nylon Fusion with Ivette Dumeng
(Awarded one of TOP 10 play productions in NYC for 2019 by Reviews from the Underground. )

October 2019
"Numbers"
by Carolyn Boris Krimsky Actors Studio
May 2019
"A Day to be Someone Else"
by Greg Paul Actors Studio
The Return of ... THE CHAPLIN PLAYS-- A Double Feature
June 2019
at the The Episcopal Actors'
Guild of America

In Character by Kate McMorran
Hands On by Janet Bentley
for Nylon fusion's This Rounds On Us March 2019

The Chaplin Plays: A Double Feature
February 26, 2019 at Birdland

December 2018 -
The ID-iots Holiday Spectacular
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October 2018 -- premiere of
JAPANESE PORNO
by John Patrick Shanley
with David Elliott
The Night Sky
by Eugenie Carabatsos for Nylon Fusion
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The Rocking Chair by Meghan Jones
at The Shelter PEEP Show
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July/August 2018
Tales with Teeth - Nylon's Nigro Nightmares - The Nutcracker by Don Nigro *
@ Planet Connections​ for Nylon Fusion
(Winner Outstanding Direction)

NYLON's The Best of This Rounds on Us
directed
Time Fixers by Adam Sullivan
Chain Link by Deb Hiett
Final Request by Tariq Hamami
Surly Bonds of Earth by Janet Bentley
Youth Hostel by Alisha Silver
French Waitress by John Patrick Shanley (with Janet Bentley)
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New Perspectives Womens Work Short Play Lab ​
August 6th - 11th
Waiting Room by
Alison Lowenstein

May 2018
A Peregrine Falls by Leegrid Stevens
Actors Studio
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April 2018
SWIPE a new musical
by Maggie Diaz Bofill
Tribeca Performing Arts Center

January 2018
The Flower or the Bee
By Greg Paul
Actors Studio PDU

Tar Beach
by Tammy Ryan
At La Mama

December 2017 This Rounds on Us Nylon Fusion
Violet by Jaqueline Wright
Soon to Rot by Jacob Rice

October 2017
Eddie and Lorraine
by Darrah Cloud
Hudson Valley Sticky

June/ July 2017
Conservation Theatre: Fresh from Africa
by Bricken Sparacino
PCTF/ The Flamboyan/San Clemente
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March/April 2017
Luft Gangster (off bway)
by Lowell Byers
Directed by Austin Pendleton
Associate Director Lori Kee
The Sheen Center

February 2017 This Rounds on Us Nylon Fusion
Full Effect by Robert McEvily
August Day by Janet Bentley

November 2016
Tramp on a Tightrope By Don Nigro
United Solo Theatre Row
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September 2016
The Chaplin Plays by Don Nigro
Dream Up Festival Theatre for the New City
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Nylon Fusion Theatre Company Short Play Festival Connect/Disconnect: Sept 2016
Cafe D' Automatique by Dave Hanson
Final Request by Tariq Hamami

The Chaplin Plays by Don Nigro, directed by Lori Kee
September 2016 Dream Up Festival Theatre for the New City
Nylon Fusion Theatre Company
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Tramp on a Tightrope
November 14
United Solo

June- July 2016
A Light in the Dark by Wendy Mae Shelton *
(Winner Outstanding Direction)
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The Chaplin Plays: two new Don Nigro plays featuring Ivette Dumeng and Tatyana Kot... *
(Winner Outstanding Production - Nominated Outstanding Direction)
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(Both at Paradise Factory as part of Planet Connections Festivity)
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March & April
365 WOMEN NYC
@ Theatre for a New City & 13th Street Rep
Blood Sisters by Robin Rice
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February 2016: "Crush" by Yasmine Lever and "The Surly Bonds of Earth" by Janet Bentley
For Nylon Fusion Time Travel 1970-1990

January 2016:"The Glorious Gloria" by Penny Jackson for T. Schrieber Studios Schreiber Shorts.
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August 2015: "Elvis at Auschwitz" by Matthew wells and "May 10th" by Jane Prendergast for This Rounds on Us- Nylon Fusion Theatre CO.
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June-July 2015 "Blizzard" by Melissa Skirball at Paradise Factory/ Planet Connection Fesitivity. Which was nominated for 6 awards including: Outstanding Direction! (Lori won the Award for Outstanding direction!)
She also directed the 2015 Planet Connection Award Ceremony at Classic Stage Company 2015.
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June 2015 For NYLON FUSION
at the Gene Frankel -- The Curse of the Wolf Man by Don Nigro, Mickey Mao by Edmond Malin and The Time Fixers by Adam Sullivan.

April 2015
"The Fairy Tale Project" by Webb Wilcoxen at Tribeca Performing Arts Center
(for BMCC CUNY)
March 2015:
"The Assent" by Eric Champney at Terry Schreiber Studios for Schreiber Shorts

February 2015: "Last Truce" by Janet Bentley. and "Moving Pictures" by Matt Jordan.Gris Gris y Craig muMsila Grant, Ebenezer Creek and Sweet Roland by James McLindon, Soul Doubt by Matt Crowley, The Last Prestidigitation of Christ by Jack Karp (with Craig SirMuMsila Grant) and Star Counter by Paul Antokolsky for Nylon Fusion's quarterly festival at the Gloria Maddox Theatre at Terry Schreiber Studios.
AWARD for BEST DIRECTION for Bricken Sparacino's Vacation... All I ever wanted for Planet Connections Festivity! at Paradise Factory, Trinity by Christine Cirker for Origin 8 at The Barrow Group/FAB Women, Insult to Injury by Cary Gitter and Yugo's There by James Reynolds -- part of Schreiber Shorts at the Gloria Maddox Theater in April.
For Nylon Fusion (where she is Resident DIrector): The critical praised revival of John Patrick Shanley's "Big Funk" at La Teá, March April 2014. Feb 2014 Kristina Poe's Building Sand Castles in the Moonlight at the Gloria Maddox, Origin by Elizabeth Irwin and Ad Man by Jack Karp for Nylon Fusion February 2014
Oct 2013 (Gene Frankel Theatre) : Last Call by James McLindon,Trick or Treater by Josh McIlvain, Manservant 3000 by Thomas J Miscuraca, Her Mark by Joseph Samuel Wright. The Goat (premiere Don Nigro) and Ralph Smith's Coming Out... by Peter Marino at the Gene Frankel Theatre July 2013.
Brilliant Traces June 2013 at The Bridge at Shetler Studios; June 2013, Lori remount Shanley's Tennessee for Planet Connections at the Signature Theatre. Tatiana and Baboon by Stuart Caldwelll, Fool zme a twice by Jerrod Bogard, Why Do Swallows... By Jack Karp all for a nylon Fusion at the Gene Frankel April 2013; Pointy the Starfish by Bricken Sparacino (Kraine), Light Patterns of Strangers by Meghan Lohne (Gene Frankel), (December 2012) Tennessee a new play by John Patrick Shanley, which Lori originally directed the premier for Nylon Fusion, last April, will be staged at the Labyrinth Theatre Company.The Wilderness by James McLindon (Gene Frankel), Youth Hostel by Alisha Silver(GF), The Pursuit of Happy Endings by Jack Karp (GF), Real Story by Sharon Talbot (GF), Couples Therapy by Matthew Growley, Pretty Fucking Perfect by Cassie Seinuk, Death, it Happens… (USM)* audience award, Paper Dragon – by Alisha Silver (MTS).Welcome to Television by Christine Toy Johnson (TGB-FAB), It's 3:45 am? That's Absurd. by Michael Birch (Red Room), Bricken Sparacino’s: I’m Not Sure I liked the Way You Licked Me (MTS, USM) Are We Freaks (Kraine); Tanforan by Christine Toy Johnson, The Experiment by Bella Poynton, Why by Andrea Kuchlewska (all TBG); Old Places by Elisa Abatsis (Naked Stages); CJ Ehrlich’s: Tuesdays in the Park (American Globe), Homespun Webs (WAHC); & Male Man (Medicine Show)* award for best direction. Everything Will Be Alright by Tariq Hamami, Through the Looking Glass (both at Borough of Manhattan CC where she teaches Acting, Voice and Movement, Intro to Theater and Speech).