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

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 Will Irvine Mary Jordan Sonya Kelly Antoinette Morelli Olivia Pouyanne Karl Wallace
The Way You Look Tonight Niall Williams
The Wheelchair On My Face Sonya Kelly
Wired to the Moon Jim Culleton Maeve Binchy