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