For her work, Kelley Curran has received the Callaway Award, Emery Battis Excellence in Acting Award, the National Theatre Conference Emerging Professional Award, and both a Drama League and Princess Grace Award nomination. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
“She is a magnificent specimen… Kelley Curran unapologetically steals the show… a triumphant appearance”
–The New York Times
“Theater is all about enlisting the audience’s imagination, a skill Ms Curran…has mastered”
–The New York Times
“…the power of Curran’s performance and the grandeur…Curran carries herself like a queen… It’s a performance built of majestic bitterness.”
–The Washington Post
“Kelley Curran, vulnerable and commanding…”
-Wall Street Journal
“The luminous Kelley Curran…”
-The Boston Globe
“A superb Kelley Curran burns incandescent…the display is magnificent.”
-DC Metro Weekly
“Kelley Curran, in a performance of such clarity and cruelty it will blow you away.”
-DC Theatre Scene
“…the charismatic Kelley Curran…rages fire like the southern end of a northbound dragster”
–The Village Voice
“And then, there is Kelley Curran! This brunette bombshell essays four different parts with the kind of comedic élan that made Carol Lombard a legend. Trust me, funny and sexy isn’t an easy thing to pull off. Ms. Curran makes it look like a day at the beach on Cannes.”
–NY Theatre Guide
“… inhabiting a character with such depth and nuance and naturalness scarcely seems possible…”
–The Oregonian
“…you’ll likely agree with the enthusiastic audience member who burst out with, ‘…Kelley Curran is a genius.'”
–Metroland