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