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Kelly Renee Armstrong (she.her.hers) is a writer, performer, and professor in the Washington, DC area. Her plays explore the existing desert in the land of milk and honey, love, equity, and a yearning to be whole through the lens of the African American experience. Selected work includes Testify (Maryland Individual Artist Award), Sins of the Father, and The Ties that Bind. Her plays have had readings at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Rapid Lemon Productions. She was a participant in the third cohort of Arena Stage's Playwrights Arena and is a member of Actor's Arena. Kelly holds a BS in History and Government from Bowie State University and an MFA in Acting and Playwriting from Catholic University of America.