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