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Here's what Lori Kee is up to... 

 

   Upcoming:

Exciting Announcement!

Lori will Directing World Premiere John Patrick Shanley this December! 

Recent Directing:

                  May 2021  (available on Youtube) 

                       Xavier Galva's 

Carte Blanche or For The Love of God 

 4 episodes to make you laugh and think 

     Melissa Skirboll's

Battered Fedora ESTrogenius  

Oct 2020/ April 2021 

"Sirocco" 

By John Jiler 

The Actors Studio January 2021 

"Snail Shell"

by Jennifer Houlton 

The Actors Studio  June 2020 

    Chasing the Light by Alina Rios

                      TROU Nylon Fusion

 

The Listening Room

by Michaela Jeffery 

at the New Ohio Theater 

Nov. & Dec  2019 

(Awarded one of TOP 10 play productions in NYC for 2019 by Reviews from the Underground. )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the Actors Studio PDU

October 2019 

"Numbers" 

by Carolyn Boris Krimsky 

 and 

  May 2019  

"A Day to be Someone Else"

by Greg Paul 

The Return of  ... THE CHAPLIN PLAYS-- A Double Feature 

June 2019

at the The Episcopal Actors'

Guild of America
 

 

 

In Character by Kate  McMorran 

Hands On by Janet Bentley 

for Nylon fusion's This Rounds On Us March 2019 

 

Director Member 

Actors Studio

Playwright Directors Unit

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The Chaplin Plays: A Double Feature

February 26, 2019  at Birdland

*Winner:Outstanding Direction of a Staged Reading for:

December 2018 -

The ID-iots Holiday Spectacular 

October  2018  -- premiere of 

      JAPANESE PORNO

 by John Patrick Shanley 

with David Elliott

 The Night Sky

by Eugenie Carabatsos 

The Rocking Chair by Meghan Jones 

at The Shelter PEEP Show 

July/August  2018

Tales with Teeth - Nylon's Nigro Nightmares -  The Nutcracker by Don Nigro 

@ Planet Connections

 

 

NYLON's The Best of This Rounds on Us 

 directed 

Time Fixers by Adam Sullivan 

Chain Link by Deb Hiett

Final Request by Tariq Hamami 

Surly Bonds of Earth by Janet Bentley

Youth Hostel by  Alisha Silver 

French Waitress by John Patrick Shanley (with Janet Bentley) 

New Perspectives Womens Work Short Play Lab  

August 6th - 11th 

Waiting Room by

Alison Lowenstein 

 

May 2018 

A Peregrine Falls  by Leegrid Stevens  

Actors Studio

April  2018 

SWIPE a new musical

by Maggie Diaz  Bofil  

 Tribeca Performing Arts Center

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 2018 

The Flower or the Bee 

By Greg Paul 

 Actors Studio PDU 

 

Tar Beach  

by Tammy Ryan 

At La Mama                          

Mother Fucking O'Malley's

By Kate Moira Ryan  

December 2017 

Violet 

by Jaqueline Wright

 

Soon to Rot 

by Jacob Rice   

 

 

October 2017  

Eddie and Lorraine 

by Darrah Cloud

Hudson Valley Sticky

 

June/ July 2017 

Conservation Theatre: Fresh from Africa 

by Bricken Sparacino   

PCTF/ The Flamboyan/San Clemente 

March/April 2017  

Luft Gangster  (off bway) 

by Lowell Byers  

Directed by Austin Pendleton 

Associate Director Lori Kee 

The Sheen Center  

 

February 2017 

Full Effect by Robert McEvily   

August Day by Janet Bentley

 

November  2016 

Tramp on a Tightrope  By Don Nigro 

United Solo  Theatre Row 

September 2016

The Chaplin Plays by Don Nigro

 Dream Up Festival Theatre for the New City

Nylon Fusion Theatre Company

Short Play Festival Connect/Disconnect:

 

Cafe D' Automatique by Dave Hanson 

Final Request by Tariq Hamami    

         

July 2016 

Before  by Penny Jackson  

Atlantic Theatre Company - Playwrights for a Cause

June- July 2016 

A Light in the Dark by Wendy Mae Shelton 

** Winner Outstanding Direction PCTF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Chaplin Plays:  two new Don Nigro plays featuring Ivette Dumeng and Tatyana Kot... ** Winner outstanding Overall Production Nominated for Outstanding Direction 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Both at Paradise Factory as part of Planet Connections Festivity) 

 

March & April   2016 

365 WOMEN NYC 

@ Theatre for a New City & 13th Street Rep

Blood Sisters by Robin Rice 

 

February 2016: "Crush" by Yasmine Lever  and "The Surly Bonds of Earth" by Janet Bentley

For Nylon Fusion Time Travel 1970-1990  

 

January 2016:"The Glorious Gloria" by Penny Jackson for T. Schrieber Studios Schreiber Shorts. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All Images Al Foote III   

Acting: 
  September 2021-  Lori is excited to be a part of Heidi Marshall's  new Acting Collective- and she is looking forward to acting in 2 shorts in the near future! 

               April / May 2021 

         "Reconceptions"

      for  New Circle Rep in

        Arlene Hutton's

         Lola Lies to Corky 

      directed by Sasha Nanus  

                   March 2021

             

For the The Seeing Place Theatre as part of a terrific ensemble  she was thrilled to take

on the role of a lifetime:

                         Tracey    in 

            SWEAT  by Lynn Nottage                                          directed by  Brandon Walker 

The production received rave reviews below is an excerpt from one by  Philip Dorian link here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fall of 2019 -- Lori was thrilled and honored to be chosen to selected to participate in 2 math long invite only class with CD  Julie Tucker !!!

It was an amazing experience!  

 

Lori jumped into the role  of Melissa

 in  Andrew Heinze's I Can't Help It.

TADA! Nylon Fusion in October 2019.

   

She was thrilled  to reprise her role in

"According to the Chorus" by Arlene Hutton, directed by Chris Goutman this February 2019  for New Circle Rep in The Sandbox.  What a joy that was! 

November 2018  ​Lori appeared as Helen in

       A Bushwick State of Mind by Roy E Barry 

@ The Actors Studio.               Directed by Ivette Dumeng 

 

 

JULY/ August 2018:  

The Wife to the Headless Horseman by Don Nigro 

Tales with Teeth - Nylon's Nigro Nightmares 

@ Planet Connections  

**Nominated - Outstanding Actress in a One Act/ Solo performance

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lori  became an actor member
of New York Madness! 
 

MAY 2018 -- Splendid Grace by Charlotte Colavin

Directed by Melissa Skirboll- New Perspectives Theatre CO

 
October 2017
Bargoyles    Hudson Valley Sticky 
 by David Simpatico & Bill Flatley 
 
July 2017     Hudson Valley Sticky 
The Outcasts 
by Samantha  Jones  
Directed by Samantha Jones 
 
 
February 2017 

Donuts and Other F- Words.                 

 by Stanely Toledo

Directed by Laura Pruden 

At The Gene Frankel  Nylon Fusion 

 

Montana  by Natalie Menna Sept 2016  For Nylon Fusion's This Round's on Us  and at Planet Connections Festivity  June- July 2016.
She reprised her role as celebrated author Jane Austen--  March 2016 at the Kraine Theater  when the girls from the "Jane Games" took over  [By The Mummers] Present Your L8 Show! (The Jane Games was an official selection of the NYC  & DC Web Fests 2015!) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
Here's  Lori playing Jane Austen, host of  

The Jane Games.

Here is the trailer: click me          

 The Jane Games website LINK HERE. 

 

            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 2015 - Lori  originated the role of Dr. Neery in "Comes a Faery" by  James McLindon at the New Ohio Theatre. 

August  2015: Lori  played Sarah in Face Value by David Csontos, directed by Janet Bentley,  at TADA! 

 

June 2015:  Principal VanPatten  in Name Calling is for Nazis by Joseph Samuel Wright  for Nylon Fusion at the Gene Frankel Theatre. 

and 

"Her Speech" by Erik Ehn for Playwrights for a Cause at NY Theatre Workshop.

 

April 2015: "Epitaph" by Barbara Bleier directed by Melissa Skirball for Abingdon's Swan Day celebration, and Penny Jackson's play"We Were Very Merry" directed by Glory Kadigan at the Sheen Center for 365 Women.

 

February 2015: Lori played the titular role in "Beatrix Potter Must Die" by Patrick Gabridge, directed by Joan Kane.  (TADA! for Nylon Fusion) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Photo by Al Foote III
review of Sweat by Philip Dorian 3 2021.
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The Waiting Room by Allison Lowenstein .
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