Meet Kelly Ehlert (Ellen/Jenna)
Meet Kelly Ehlert (Ellen/Jenna)What modern amenity would be the hardest for you to give up?
That sticky stuff on post-its.
If you had a time machine, which time period would you like to live in?
I don’t think I’d actually want to live with them but, I really want to see the dinosaurs. Ideal situation? Go to the prehistoric age during the summer months to ranch dinos, return to my home in LA for the rest of the year. As one does.
If you were to start a role playing community, what would it be? And, who would you be in it?
If I were to start a role-playing community it would be one in which everyone pretends to be nice and wonderful to each other all the time…….just to see if it would work. I’d be the nicest, OBVIOUSLY. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t work. I go back to reality better able to understand others and really happy that I can scream at people in traffic again.
Tell us something most people don’t know about you.
Something about me that people don’t know is that this question confounds me because I will tell you anything about me that you want to know unless I don’t want you to know it- then I definitely won’t. Also, my feet hurt. I’m a spy.
If you met any of the characters on the street, who would you share a pint with and who would you turn and walk away from? And why?
Omar- There’s nothing more fun than drinking a pint and bitching. Omar would not disappoint. I would turn and walk away from Jenna. Being her onstage is enough. I can read her mind. Its weird and scary and honestly…..? Not much going on up there.
What’s the biggest challenge for you in this production?
My biggest challenge in this production is figuring out the thoughts floating through the head of someone who lives life as though it’s 1955 yet acknowledges that it’s not. And, when I don’t figure that out and decide that the best thing to do is for me to just say my lines and eat chocolate, I think my biggest challenge will be tracking down a period appropriate girdle that has stocking fasteners.
What excites you about this story and why should people come see it?
People should come and see this play because it deals with feminism, racism, and other social issues in an uncommon way. Opinions are not prescribed and the situations are thought-provoking. It questions the freedom in choice and the associated problems we run into in our contemporary world. Its weird, lovely, and smart.
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