About Tiggs Kelley
Teghan “Tiggs” Kelley is a queer and disabled playwright living in the Pacific Northwest. Their plays include I Wish I Were A Phoenix, You Can Certainly Try, In the Stars, and Strawberry Milkshake. They are currently working on a screenplay, Darling, It’s Cold Outside, as well as an untitled memoir. Their published works include Cotton Candy (song lyrics) in the It Gets Better Project’s Queerbook 2024 and I Wish I Were A Phoenix (prose poem) in the 51st edition of Saxifrage, a student-produced literary magazine at Pacific Lutheran University.
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Tiggs has been doing community theatre in the Kitsap County, WA area since they were age seven and will be graduating from Pacific Lutheran University in May of 2027 with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and a Dance minor. They are a member of the Alpha Psi Omega Honor Society and participated in the Yale Young Writer's Workshop in 2023. they have directed two productions: Here the Whole Time by Will Morgan during the 2026 APO Student-Written One-Acts Festival and Night of Musical Theatre's Be YOUnique!, a musical revue, in March of 2027.
