Bio
Kelley played the role of the Asst. Medical Examiner on a final season episode of HBO's The Wire. She also plays the supporting character of 'Boyens' in the upcoming 10 episode sci-fi series, TRENCHES, produced by X-ILE Pictures and Stage 9 Digital Media, releasing in Summer 2008. Kelley also appears as the supporting character 'Diane Devinger' in the horror feature Women's Studies, produced by Ningen Manga Productions, also releasing Summer 2008.
In theatre, Kelley has taken on some challenging roles, such as Josie in A
Moon for the Misbegotten for the Colonial Players,
in a production directed by Bob
Bartlett and Nurse
Ratched in One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for Firebelly
Productions. She also won an Outstanding Performance
Award for her portrayal of murderess Karla Faye Tucker in the play Occam's
Razor. Kelley's other theater credits also include Zubaida Ula/Cathy
Connolly in The Laramie Project, Inez Serrano in Ellipsis (an
adaptation of No Exit), and Feste in Twelfth Night.
She has also had great success directing/producing short films with her
company, Cavegirl Productions. FELT:
Tearing the Fabric of America, won Best Mockumentary
in the 2004 National
Film Challenge and was in the top ten of more than 150 entries. Her
film team participated in its fifth 48
Hour Film Project in May 2008.
Kelley is also a member of the Board of Directors of the non-profit The
Actors' Center,
and designed and programmed the organization's website.
Selected Reviews
For A Moon for the Misbegotten :
"The best performance in this production is given by Kelley
Slagle, whose Josie has strength and sass.... Slagle's Josie has an honest power as well as innocence beneath her false sophistication."
- Mary Johnson, THE BALTIMORE SUN
"Kelley
Slagle is incredible in the role of the non-drinking daughter. Watching her face provides more insight into her emotional state than many of her lines, as the waves of joy and despair roll over her one after the other, lifting the hopes on a crest
and then dashing them to be drowned."
- William Bryan, POTOMAC STAGES
"Acting kudos go to Kelley
Slagle, whose performance as the barely forbearing daughter shows every level of emotion between utter despair and cautious optimism. Every aspect of her demeanor puts on display the emotions that are pulling her apart."
- Dick Wilson, BAY WEEKLY
