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