Baron Kelly

Baron Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Theatre.  He holds a diploma from London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, an M.F.A in Acting from California State University Long Beach, and a Ph.D. in History, Criticism, Literature and Theory from the University Wisconsin-Madison.  He has just been awarded the distinction of a second Fulbright Grant.  In January 2008, he will be a visiting scholar at the IMER (International Migration and Ethnic Relations) Center at the University of Bergen.  While in Norway, he will direct a play and also travel to Poland, Russia, and Finland to guest lecture and teach. 

A professional actor for over thirty years, Baron's work spans film, television, and stage.  He has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in over thirty of America’s regional theatres.  His international credits include Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada, Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, Edinburgh Festival, and Dublin’s Academy Theatre.  On Broadway he appeared opposite Collen Dewhurst in Electra and Al Pacino in Salome, both directed by Arvin Brown.  Regional theatre productions include Camelot with Geroge Wendt and The King and I (Madison Wisconsin’s Oscar Meyer Theatre); A Doll’s House and Master Harold...and the boys (Wisconsin’s Mitchell Theatre); The Three Musketeers (Madison Rep); Strider, The Mistress of the Inn, Fifteen Strings of Cash, and Spunk (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Othello and Henry VIII (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Othello and Comedy of Errors (Dallas/Fort Worth Shakespeare Festival); Oedipus (Guthrie), Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Teeth and Smiles (Shakespeare Theatre Washington); Much Ado About Nothing (Trinity Rep); The Winter’s Tale (Baltimore’s Center Stage); Angels in America (World Premiere-San Francisco’s Eureka Theatre); The Wait (Yale Rep); Miriam’s Flowers (Mark Taper Forum); Antony and Cleopatra, Comedy of Errors (Old Globe, San Diego); Search and Destroy (World Premiere), Cold Sweat (World Premiere), and Custer’s Last Band (South Coast Rep); The Piano Lesson and Grace (American Premiere-Portland Rep); The Queen of the Leaky Roof Circuit, Whereabouts Unknown, The Boys Next Door (Actors Theatre of Louisville); The Petrified Forest (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Pill Hill (Philadelphia Theatre Company), among others.  Television: As The World Turns; Frasier; Law and Order; Loving; The Innocent; Majority Rule; Homicide; The Adventures of The Galaxy Rangers. Film: A Day Without a Mexican; Nobody American; Bird; Looking for Jose; The Couch; Who Killed the Baby Jesus; Heroes; Voices.   Baron's work has been seen in American Theatre Magazine, African American National Biography (Oxford University Press), Fulbright News, Los Angeles Times, Blackstream, and On Wisconsin. He has presented nationally and internationally.