Kaite O’Reilly
Fellow
Kaite O’Reilly is a playwright, radio dramatist, writer, and dramaturg who works in disability arts and culture and mainstream culture. She has won various awards for her work, including the Peggy Ramsay Award for YARD (Bush Theatre, London) and Manchester Evening News Best Play of 2004 for Perfect (Contact Theatre, Manchester), while The Almond and the Seahorse (Sherman Cymru, Cardiff) was a finalist for the 2009 International Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Her acclaimed new version of Aeschylus’ Persians was directed in August 2010 by Mike Pearson as part of the inaugural year of National Theatre Wales. She has recently received an Unlimited Commission, part of the Cultural Olympiad for the 2012 London Olympics, to create The ‘d’ Monologues, a series of short dramatic monologues written specifically for Deaf and disabled performers, from a "crip" perspective. Her plays are published by Faber & Faber and Oberon.
Kaite O’Reilly is a playwright, radio dramatist, writer, and dramaturg who works in disability arts and culture and mainstream culture. She has won various awards for her work, including the Peggy Ramsay Award for YARD (Bush Theatre, London) and Manchester Evening News Best Play of 2004 for Perfect (Contact Theatre, Manchester), while The Almond and the Seahorse (Sherman Cymru, Cardiff) was a finalist for the 2009 International Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Her acclaimed new version of Aeschylus’ Persians was directed in August 2010 by Mike Pearson as part of the inaugural year of National Theatre Wales. She has recently received an Unlimited Commission, part of the Cultural Olympiad for the 2012 London Olympics, to create The ‘d’ Monologues, a series of short dramatic monologues written specifically for Deaf and disabled performers, from a "crip" perspective. Her plays are published by Faber & Faber and Oberon.
