About Me

Kellen Flynn (he/him) is a theatre director who aims to create unapologetic transformative theatrical experiences while prioritizing accessibility and entertainment value.

Kellen started his theatrical career at 8 years old as an actor, since then he has performed in many plays and musicals, and continues to develop himself as an actor to this day. Directing from this background, he has developed a Stanislavsky-based, character-focused, collaborative process- enabling actors to express their artistry using character relationships, perspectives, motivations, and obstacles as the springboard to build the world of a play through it’s characters eyes.

Kellen is an alumnus of the BADA London Theatre Program and holds a BA in Theater from Whitman College, where he received distinction directing his thesis production, God of Carnage. Kellen found himself at Whitman as the recipient of their full-ride Presidential Scholarship for Theater. Additionally, through the Department of Theater and Dance, Kellen was awarded the Brandon Bruce Lee Scholarship, the Brad Hunt Music Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theater, and the Marilyn Sparks Award for Leadership in Theater. In 2021, Kellen started his own student theatre company called The Whitman Musical Theatre Project as a means to create direction and design opportunities for underclassmen, as well as yearly musical theatre performance opportunities for Whitman students, something the school did not offer until this point. In 2024, Kellen was the founder and first president of Whitman College’s chapter (Alpha Iota Theta) of Alpha Psi Omega.

Professionally, Kellen has held an internship teaching with Seattle Children’s Theatre in 2023. Then, he worked for Walla Walla Summer Theater for 2 years, where he taught youth acting classes and helped start their “Spring Studio Play” program. Through this program, he was hired to help renovate an old dance studio into a black box theatre space and direct their inaugural production of Alan Ball’s Five Women Wearing the Same Dress.

Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, dir. Dr. Laura Hope, Whitman College