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

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