About Kelly

Kelly Vincent is a writer and an advocate living on Kaurna land. At age 20, they won the State Theatre’s Young Guns Award for young playwrights for Gravity. At 21, they became Australia’s youngest Member of Parliament and first-ever appointed specifically on the platform of disability rights. From 2010 to 2018, Kelly represented the Dignity Party in the Upper House of South Australia’s State Parliament, making vital changes to the way service providers, the built environment, and the justice system respond to the needs of disabled people. 

Since leaving Parliament, Kelly has worked as a neurodiversity and disability policy adviser to a couple of government departments, then as Access and Inclusion Officer for the 2020 Adelaide Fringe season and Project and Policy Officer for an LGBTIQA+ advocacy organisation. Then Kelly realised they could combine their passions of accessibility and arts, and in 2020, she co-founded True Ability, a disabled persons’ theatre company, where they are Creative Director.