Kelly DuMar is an award-winning playwright, creative arts workshop facilitator and author of a non-fiction book for parents, Before You Forget - The Wisdom of Writing Diaries for your Children. Kelly's plays have been produced around the US and in Canada, and her award winning one-act plays and monologues have been published by a variety of publishers. Kelly is past president of Playwrights' Platform, Boston, and she founded and produces the annual Our Voices Festival of Boston area women playwrights held at Wellesley College, now in its 9th year. Her first poetry chapbook, All These Cures, won the Lit House Press Poetry Award and was published in 2014. Kelly received her Master's Degree in Education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and her BA in English with Honors from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Kelly is a member of the Dramatists Guild, a certified psychodramatist and Fellow in the American Society for Group Psychotherapy. She's on the Advisory Circle of the International Women's Writing Guild where she's a faculty member of their annual conference. Kelly has presented professional workshops at the New England Theatre Conference, The Boston Book Festival, Mass. Poetry, Playback North America, Te International Women's Writing Guild, The National Association for Poetry Therapy & The Transformative Language Arts Conference. She lives in the woods on the Charles River with her husband and children.
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