FRANCIS KELLY most recently co-produced the NY Premiere of Smoking Bloomberg, a new musical written by David Cornue, Sam Holtzapple, Warren Loy, and Chris Todd, as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival.  At the NYMF Awards, Smoking Bloomberg received the Verizon “Best of Fest” Audience Award, as well as Honorable Mention for Excellence in Musical Theatre Writing (Book).  Smoking Bloomberg was previously the winner of AnyMinuteNow Productions’ Next Big Musical Competition.

Last spring, Francis directed If You Can’t Love Me, At Least Make The Bed, an original cabaret starring Maura Pheney.  Previously, he co-conceived and directed Sixteen Stories: The Songs of Robert Rokicki, an evening of new music presented at The Triad NYC.  At Regis High School, he has directed Room Service, a farce by John Murray and Allen Boretz, and the musical Pippin.

He has co-conceived and directed two musical revues:  Jukebox Cabaret for Wanderlust Theatre Company, and Barn Faces 2004 for the New London Barn Playhouse.  At the University of Notre Dame, he produced and directed productions of Closer Than Ever and Boy Meets Girl, a rarely produced one-act play by the late Wendy Wasserstein.

Francis is proud to have served as the Co-Artistic Director of AnyMinuteNow Productions, a theatre company he co-founded with colleagues in New York City.  He acted as casting director on both of AnyMinuteNow’s sold out concerts at Lincoln Center (Triumph of Love and Andrew Lippa’s john & jen).  He has also assisted with casting on various other projects, including the critically acclaimed Fringe musical Martha & Me.

He was the Assistant Director of Public Relations and Marketing for the John Harms Center for the Arts in New Jersey, during its $6.1 million renovation in 1995, and served as the casting associate and company manager of the Weathervane Theatre in New Hampshire during their 1997 summer repertory season.  He was also the General Manager (and a company member) of Wanderlust Theatre Company, a non-profit professional theatre group that brings live theatre to areas of Central America where work from the U.S. is seldom seen.