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