Biography

Peter Kelley has worked professionally as an acting coach and a director of film and theater for over fifteen years, and is the Founding Director of both "The Harrison Project" and "The Studio at C/P Casting".

As an acting coach, his clients have included Chris O'Donnell (I), Eliza Dushku (Bring It On (2000), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)..., True Lies (1994), etc.), Rick Fox (forward, LA Lakers, roles include Oz, He Got Game, Eddie, etc.), Bob Wahlberg, celebrity chef Todd English, as well as numerous on-air and public figures.

He has conducted seminars for the Screen Actors Guild New England and Southwest, among others; he co-taught a Boston seminar, "The Feature Film Audition", with John Lyons. Mr. Kelley is currently on the faculty of Boston University's School of Broadcast and Film as well as "The Studio at C/P Casting" in Boston.

Shortly after joining C/P to run the Studio, Mr. Kelley began casting for C/P; his work included Boston principal casting for over a dozen feature films and hundreds of regional and national commercials.

Sporting Dog (2000), Kelley's most recent film, has been an official selection in over forty film festivals worldwide and won awards at the IFC/CMJ Festival in New York, the Northampton Film Festival, The Atlantic City festival, the Crested Butte Reel Fest, among others. It is currently airing on Bravo and PBS stations nationwide.

Theater directing credits include the following Boston premieres: "Search & Destroy" (Lansdowne Playhouse); "Four Dogs and a Bone" (Boston Center for the Arts); "Etta Jenks" (ICA theater); "Execution of Justice"; "Burn This"; and "Don't Touch that Dial". Other theatrical directing credits include "Glengarry Glen Ross", "Entertaining Mr. Sloan", "T-Bone & Weasel", and "Sunday on the Rocks". Most recently, he directed "Fool For Love" off-Broadway.

Annika, Kelley's first feature film, is in production with Alexa Fogel and Beech Hill Films and is scheduled to begin shooting in Spring 2005 with Kelley directing and starring Olivier Martinez and Ian Holm. In addition, he is developing Glare, a thriller about murders inside the NBA, for Rick Fox and Frank Corache.
- IMDb mini biography by: Harrison Project

On acting: "Theater is the actor's medium. Film? That's the director's medium."