Kaite O'Reilly
Llanarth, UK
About
Kaite O’Reilly is a playwright, radio dramatist, writer, and dramaturg who works in disability arts and culture and mainstream culture. She won the Peggy Ramsay Award for YARD and M.E.N. Best Play of 2004 for Perfect. Her acclaimed version of Aeschylus’ Persians, winner of the Ted Hughes Prize, was directed by Mike Pearson in the inaugural year of National Theatre Wales. In Water I’m Weightless, her Unlimited/Cultural Olympiad Commission for the London 2012 Olympics festival, was produced by National Theatre Wales at Southbank Centre. The Mandarin premiere of her latest script, The 9 Fridas, about disability icon Frida Kahlo was directed by Phillip Zarrilli at Taipei International Festival. Her plays are published by Faber & Faber and Oberon. (Photos: Hayley Madden & Toby Farrow)
Professional activities
playwriting, dramaturgy, writing, poetryAreas of interest
alternative dramaturgies, disability arts, disability culture, drama, translation, cultural translation, deaf culture, sign theatreWorking languages
English, BSL
Contact
Website
www.kaiteoreilly.com
Mailing address
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Tyn-y-Parc Studio
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City
Llanarth -
Postcode
SA47 0PB -
Country
UK
Featured Work
Performance
playing ‘the maids’
by The Llanarth Group, Gaitkrash, and Theatre P'yut
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Keywords
Jean Genet The Maids psychophysical performance cross-cultural performance collective creation
Performance
Cosy
A new play by Kaite O’Reilly
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Keywords
theatre youth ageing living family Welsh theatre
Book
Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors: Selected Plays
by Kaite O’Reilly
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Keywords
plays drama playwriting performance texts alternative dramaturgies deaf culture atypical experience disability arts disability culture crip culture memory memory loss peeling (play) The Almond and the Seahorse In Water Iām Weightless 9 Fridas Cosy (play) Unlimited National Theatre Wales Graeae monologues John McGrath Lyn Gardner Nigel Charnock Patrick Baldwin Oberon Books
Featured posts
Blog post
Rewriting isn’t just about dialogue: Cosy developments
by Kaite O’Reilly
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Keywords
writing & performance R&D Llanarth Group Cosy (play) Sara Beer Llinos Daniel Ruth Lloyd Sharon Morgan Ri Richards Mike Salmon Tom Wentworth Bethan Rose Young Phillip Zarrilli Welsh theatre bowed psaltery crwth Unlimited Wales Millennium Centre
Blog post
Cosy: the director’s perspective on R&D
by Phillip Zarrilli
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Keywords
Sara Beer Llinos Daniel Ruth Lloyd Sharon Morgan Kaite O'Reilly Mike Salmon Ri Richards Bethan Rose Young Phillip Zarrilli creative process R&D rehearsals
Connections
Duncan Jamieson
Co-Director, Culture Hub
London, UK
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Working languages
English, Spanish, French, Polish, Polish (sign), Italian -
Professional activities
research, editing, publishing, translating, directing, web development -
Areas of interest
theatre & performance studies, cross-cultural performance, ethics, acting, directing, rehearsal practices, performer training, psychophysical performance, practice research, cultural translation, cognitive studies, decision making, gender studies, theatre history, historiography, contemporary philosophy, digital culture, social & cultural networks, memory studies, Polish theatre, Polish culture, Jerzy Grotowski, Laboratory Theatre, Tadeusz Kantor, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Krystian Lupa, Latin American performance
Adela Karsznia
Co-Director, Culture Hub
London, UK
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Working languages
Polish, Polish (sign), English, French, Yiddish -
Professional activities
editing, translating, publishing, research, lecturing, web development -
Areas of interest
cross-cultural performance, theatre & performance studies, Polish theatre, literature, Polish identity, theatre history, disability culture, gender & performance, memory studies
Affiliations
Timeline
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