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Donal O'Kelly

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Donal O'Kelly is well-known both as a playwright and as an actor. He has performed his own solo plays throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. O'Kelly's play, Catalpa, won a Scotsman Fringe First Award at the 1996 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Critics' Prize at the Melbourne International Festival in 1997. He has twice been awarded an Irish Arts Council literature bursary, and in 1999 was awarded the Irish American Cultural Institute Butler Literary Award. He is a founder member and former director of Calypso Productions and is co-director of Benbo Productions (formerly Donal O'Kelly Productions), which he set up in 2000. He is a member of Aosdána.

Company Jobs

Job Title Company
Director Benbo Productions

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Aillilú Fionnuala Donal O'Kelly
Asylum! Asylum! Donal O'Kelly
Bat The Father Rabbit The Son Donal O'Kelly
Catalpa Donal O'Kelly
Catalpa Donal O'Kelly
Farawayan Donal O'Kelly
Hughie On The Wires Donal O'Kelly
Jimmy Joyced! Donal O'Kelly
Judas of the Gallarus Donal O'Kelly
Little Thing, Big Thing Donal O'Kelly
Mamie Sighs Donal O'Kelly
Operation Easter Donal O'Kelly
Silicon Sweethearts Donal O'Kelly
The Adventures Of The Wet Señor Donal O'Kelly
The Business of Blood Donal O'Kelly Kenneth Glenaan
The Cambria Donal O'Kelly
The Dogs Donal O'Kelly
The Hand Donal O'Kelly
The Memory Stick Donal O'Kelly
Trickledown Town Donal O'Kelly
Vive La Donal O'Kelly

Actor

Play Title Playwright
1900 Marella Boschi
A Surprise for Miriam Mary Murphy
Ag Ealaín In Éirinn Antoine Ó Flatharta
Aillilú Fionnuala Donal O'Kelly
Bat The Father Rabbit The Son Donal O'Kelly
Beauty in a Broken Place Colm Tóibín
Blinded by the Light Dermot Bolger
Catalpa Donal O'Kelly
Cement Tony Cafferky
Corporation Flat Tony Cafferky
Execution Ulick O'Connor
Flotsam Joe Taylor
Hidden Charges Arthur Riordan
Hughie On The Wires Donal O'Kelly
Jimmy Joyced! Donal O'Kelly
Jimmy's Hall Graham McLaren Paul Laverty (2)
Little Thing, Big Thing Donal O'Kelly
No Escape Mary Raftery
One Last White Horse Dermot Bolger
Operation Easter Donal O'Kelly
Pisces - The Cod James Douglas
Prayers of Sherkin Sebastian Barry
Semi-Private Mary Halpin
Seventy Percent Proof Art Ó Briain
The Cambria Donal O'Kelly
The Dosshouse Waltz Aodhán Madden
The Golden Hair Mairead Byrne
The Hand Donal O'Kelly
The Nose Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy Nikolai Gogol
Vive La Donal O'Kelly

Director

Play Title Playwright
Counter Culture Katie O'Kelly
Farawayan Donal O'Kelly
The Adventures Of The Wet Señor Donal O'Kelly
The Hand Donal O'Kelly

Voice Over

Play Title Playwright
Farawayan Donal O'Kelly

Producer

Play Title Playwright
Safe Home Mairead Byrne
The Cambria Donal O'Kelly