PETER
KELLEY has worked
professionally as an acting coach and a writer and director of film and
theatre for over fifteen years, and is the Founding Director
of both The Harrison Project and The Studio at C/P Casting.
PK pic: Hoebermann Studio
As an acting coach, Mr. Kelley's clients include Chris O'Donnell,
Eliza Dushku (Bring it On, Buffy..., True Lies, etc.), Rick Fox (forward, LA Lakers, roles include Oz, He Got Game,
Eddie, etc.), Dane Cook, celebrity chef Todd English, as
well as numerous on-air and public figures, and most of the crazed crew on the "Tourgasm" bus.
He has conducted seminars for the Screen Actors Guild New
England and Southwest, among others; he co-taught a Boston
seminar, "The Feature Film Audition," with John Lyons. Mr.
Kelley is currently on the faculty of Boston University's
School of Film as well as the Studio at C/P
Casting in Boston.
Shortly after joining C/P to run the Studio, Mr. Kelley began
casting for C/P; his work included Boston principal casting
for over a dozen feature films and hundreds of regional and
national commercials.
Mr. Kelley is also an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker; The Path Most Resistance, Mr. Kelley's most recent film, premiered in New York in June, 2006, following a screening in competition at the Jackson Hole Film Festival; most recently the film was awarded Best of Festival at the Northampton Film Festival and is an official selection in competition at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival.
Sporting Dog, Mr. Kelley's previous film, was
an official selection in over forty film festivals worldwide
and won awards at the IFC/CMJ Festival in New York, the Northampton
Film Festival, The Atlantic City festival, the Crested Butte
Reel Fest, among others. It has aired on Bravo and
PBS stations nationwide.
Onstage, he most recently directed Fool For Love off-Broadway; other theater directing credits include the following Boston premieres:
Search & Destroy (Lansdowne Playhouse); Four Dogs
and a Bone (Boston Center for the Arts); Etta Jenks
(ICA theater); Execution of Justice; Burn This; and Don't
Touch that Dial. Other theatrical directing credits include
Glengarry Glen Ross, Entertaining Mr. Sloan, T-Bone & Weasel,
and Sunday on the Rocks.
Annika,
Mr.
Kelley's current feature film, is in production with Alexa Fogel
and Beech Hill Films and is scheduled to begin shooting in
Fall 2006 with Mr. Kelley directing and starring Olivier
Martinez and Ian Holm. In addition, he is developing Glare,
a thriller about murders inside the NBA, for Rick Fox and
Frank Corache.