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Sonya Kelly

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Sonya Kelly is an actor and playwright. Her debut play, The Wheelchair on My Face, won a Scotsman Fringe First Award for new writing at the Edinburgh Fringe 2012 and received a Critics' Pick in the New York Times. How To Keep An Alien won the Best Production Award at the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival in 2014. Sonya's short play The Pet Sitter was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre as part of their Future Tense series. She has also written two plays for The Collapsing Horse Science Fiction Radio Hour and is a regular contributor to the arts show, Arena on RTÉ Radio 1. Sonya was a participant in Six in the Attic, an Irish Theatre Institute Resource Sharing Initiative, in 2015-2016.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Dear Ireland I Eva O'Connor Thomas Kane Byrne Edna O'Brien Carmel Winters Sinéad Burke Dermot Bolger Aoife Martyn Enda Walsh Iseult Golden Carys D. Coburn Arthur Riordan Sarah Hanly Meadhbh McHugh Andrea Molino John Connors Colm Keegan (2) John O'Donovan (2) Deirdre Kinahan Shane O'Reilly Phillip McMahon Zoe Ní Riordáin Nancy Harris Darach Mac Con Iomaire Karen Cogan Owen McCafferty Sonya Kelly Margaret Perry Joseph O'Connor (1) Kit de Waal Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Keith James Walker Mark O'Halloran Una McKevitt Blindboy Boatclub Emmet Kirwan Rosaleen McDonagh David Ireland Jody O'Neill Frank McGuinness Felicia 'FELISPEAKS' Olusanya Jimmy Murphy Gina Moxley Ursula Rani Sarma Abbie Spallen Zhu Yi Michael West Shaun Dunne Pom Boyd Manchán Magan Stacey Gregg
Furniture Sonya Kelly
Home Theatre (Ireland) Finbarr Doyle Paul Mercier John Morton Shaun Dunne Felicia 'FELISPEAKS' Olusanya Marc Mac Lochlainn Eva O'Connor Sorcha Fox Gavin Kostick Sharon Mannion Sonya Kelly Fionn Foley Tom Swift Deirdre Kinahan Louise Lewis Clare Barrett (1) Nancy Harris Elaine Murphy Jody O'Neill Little John Nee Colin Murphy Natalya O'Flaherty Jeda de Brí Carys D. Coburn Neil Watkins Fiona McGeown Roisin Ingle Bryan Burroughs Duke Special Robbie Blake
How to Keep an Alien Sonya Kelly
Once Upon A Bridge Sonya Kelly
The Last Return Sonya Kelly
The Waiting Room Sonya Kelly Karl Wallace Mary Jordan Will Irvine Antoinette Morelli Olivia Pouyanne
The Wheelchair On My Face Sonya Kelly
Theatre for One (and a Little One) Sonya Kelly Louis Lovett Roddy Doyle Pauline McLynn

Actor

Play Title Playwright
Box Martin Mooney Eugene Ionesco
How to Keep an Alien Sonya Kelly
The Idiots Stephanie Kate Burgarth Lars von Trier
The Nose Tom Swift Nikolai Gogol
The Seagull Michael West Anton Chekhov
The Waiting Room Antoinette Morelli Olivia Pouyanne Sonya Kelly Karl Wallace Mary Jordan Will Irvine
The Way You Look Tonight Niall Williams
The Wheelchair On My Face Sonya Kelly
Wired to the Moon Jim Culleton Maeve Binchy