Kelly McCready    


Creative Work



Kelly McCready (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist from Australia, currently residing in Brooklyn.

IMDB
Perfect Love Short Film
Burning House Company
Theatre Directing
Acting
Photography
/Cinematography

Lady & the Watches Animated Short Film
Kelly McCready is a writer/director/actor and photographer/cinematographer from Australia who now resides in Brooklyn, NY. Kelly came to the United States to study theatre and political science, and then found herself staying longer than she thought she would. Because of the work her parents did, Kelly lived in seven different countries by the time she was 18. That list includes England, Cuba, Germany, Spain, Guam and Australia. She studied at Case Western Reserve University and the Moscow Art Theatre School.

The stories she’s most interested in usually have a social slant: gender issues, sexuality, climate change, the conflation between religion and morality, and the rise of fascism.


kelly.r.mccready(at)gmail.com
216.744.4038

Perfect Love                
Production Update:
Perfect Love was shot June 22-24, 2024. All hired peoples are women/nonbinary.
Perfect Love is now in post-production.

Logline:
At the brink of giving up on all human connection, a painfully inhibited young woman meets a self-loving stranger at New York's Coney Island, inspiring her to discover herself.

Mission Statement:
Perfect Love demonstrates the power of the female gaze in the face of an internalized male gaze, seen through the eyes of our protagonist—Evelyn. With a nuanced and non-performative view of sexuality and queer women in Perfect Love, our intimate short aims to be a gamechanger for the industry.

Accolades:
Winner, Keep or Destroy - New York New Stories Screenplay Contest 2023
Finalist, Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition 2023
Quarterfinalist, Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2023
Quarterfinalist, Slamdance Screenplay Competition 2022
Quarterfinalist, HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition 2022

Creative/Cast:
Director: Kelly McCready
Writer: Kelly McCready
Producer: Mélisa Breiner-Sanders
Dir. of Photography: Idil Eryurekli
Editor: Hillary Carrigan
Burning House Company
In association with Boxwood Films

Starring:
Devlin Stark as EVELYN
Tatiana Wechsler as LIORA
Sophie Kelly-Hedrick as PHOEBE

Burning House Company        



“Founded in 2018, Burning House is a non-profit production company in NYC dedicated to brutally reinventing classic plays and the development of urgent new works. In a world progressively getting harder to live in, Burning House has a particular interest in modern stories that explore gender, sexuality, class, and issues of the environment. With an emphasis on great acting and barebones aesthetic, our productions are intimate, roguish and often uncomfortable.”

Burning House is co-founded by David De Almo and Kelly McCready.

Burning House also runs a mentorship program for young women/nb writers.


Previous Works:

Theatre:
Coriolanus
Cherry Jam
Sex Object
Darwins Reptilia

Film:
Perfect Love


Brutal reinventions of classics & urgent new works for a world ​on fire.


Theatre Directing



Kelly is inspired by the grounded beauty of David Cromer’s work, mixed with the expressionism of Eastern European theatre, punctuated by the gestural physicality of Rebecca Frecknall and Pina Bausch.














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Kelly has experience shooting narrative short films, music videos, theatre promotional videos, and live concerts.

 Lady & the Watches  

Lady & the Watches is an upcoming animated short film. Lady & the Watches has completed all animation, and is now in the final sound mixing stage. It is 5min long.

Logline: A woman buys a watch every time she ends a relationship. Is it possible to be lonely with so many watches?

Creative Team:
Writer/Director/Producer: Kelly McCready
Lead Animator: Deniz Onmuş






kelly.r.mccready(at)gmail.com
216.744.4038