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