Kenneth Elliott

Kenneth Elliott co-authored Devil Boys from Beyond (with Buddy Thomas) and directed its premiere at the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival (Fringe Award for Outstanding Play), as well as the 2010 Off-Broadway transfer at New World Stages. His directing credits include revivals of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band in New York and London, The Green Heart at Manhattan Theatre Club (Outer Critics Circle Nomination), and Aviva Jane Carlin’s acclaimed one-woman show Jodie’s Body at the Arclight Theatre and the Sundance Theatre Festival.  He co-founded Theatre-in-Limbo with Charles Busch, and directed, produced, and sometimes acted in the original productions of many of Mr. Busch’s Off Broadway comedies such asPsycho Beach Party, Times Square Angel, The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset, and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, which played more than 2000 performances at the venerable Provincetown Playhouse and became the longest running non-musical in the history of Off-Broadway. Regional theatre credits include The Asolo Theatre Center, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Denver Center, The Wilma Theatre, Bay Street Theatre Festival, Prince Music Theatre, the Cape Playhouse, and The Cleveland Play House. He received his B.S. and M.A. in Theatre from Northwestern University, and his Ph.D. in Theatre from U.C.L.A. He is currently associate professor of theater and chair of the Fine Arts Department at Rutgers University in Camden, and his university theatre productions there have included Tartuffe, Angels in America, Measure for Measure, Dracula, A Doll’s House and The Glass Menagerie.