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