Mary Ann Kelley has taught drama for thirty years. Her recent focus has been the development of plays by and for young people through improvisation. Mary Ann has taught multi-aged summer creative dramatics programs for twenty years. She uses the lists and activities in Improv Ideas as creative prompts for plays that are eventually performed for the public. Mary Ann has also written a drama curriculum guide for fourth- through sixth-graders.

Mary Ann has collaborated with Justine Jones on two drama and theatre curriculum guides as well as numerous productions and drama festivals, notably the Mad Cow Classic.

Mary Ann lives and works in Los Alamos, New Mexico.