Kelly Cavanagh

     Kelly (she/her) is a non-union actor currently based in St. Louis with plans to move to Chicago in early 2025. She graduated with a BFA in Musical Theatre from the Jeanine Larson Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance at Southeast Missouri State University in spring 2024. Though her degree is in musical theatre, her college education has lead her to find a love for film acting, voice acting, and new work, especially through The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival.

     She has spent two years on the organizing staff of the Lanford Wilson Festival. In 2023 she was the Festival Archivist, and was then selected to be the Associate Artistic Director for the 2024 Festival. Recently, she started a podcast where she talks about life in your 20s, tells stories, and gives advice to the best of her capabilities as someone who is figuring life out herself. 

     Outside of performing, she is an extremely amateur surfer, a reader of romance novels, a fierce competitor at anything from board games to movie opinions, a bartender, and the most chill extroverted introvert you will ever meet.