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, poetry
Areas of interest
alternative dramaturgies, disability arts, disability culture, drama, translation, cultural translation, deaf culture, sign theatre
Working languages
English, BSL

Contact

Website
www.kaiteoreilly.com

Mailing address

Tyn-y-Parc Studio
City
Llanarth
Postcode
SA47 0PB
Country
UK

Featured Work

Performance

playing ‘the maids’

by The Llanarth Group, Gaitkrash, and Theatre P'yut

Keywords

Jean Genet The Maids psychophysical performance cross-cultural performance collective creation

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Performance

Cosy

A new play by Kaite O’Reilly

Keywords

theatre youth ageing living family Welsh theatre

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Book

Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors: Selected Plays

by Kaite O’Reilly

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 I’m Weightless 9 Fridas Cosy (play) Unlimited National Theatre Wales Graeae monologues John McGrath Lyn Gardner Nigel Charnock Patrick Baldwin Oberon Books

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Featured posts

Blog post

Rewriting isn’t just about dialogue: Cosy developments

by Kaite O’Reilly

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

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Cosy: the director’s perspective on R&D

by Phillip Zarrilli

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

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Connections

Duncan Jamieson

Co-Director, Culture Hub

London, UK

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

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

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