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, 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

<p>playing &lsquo;the maids&rsquo;</p>

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playing ‘the maids’

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

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<p>Cosy</p>

Performance

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Cosy

A new play by Kaite O’Reilly

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<p>Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors: Selected Plays</p>

Book

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Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors: Selected Plays

by Kaite O’Reilly

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Blogs

<p><em>Cosy</em>: the director&rsquo;s perspective on R&amp;D</p>

Blog post

Open Access

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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Phillip B. Zarrilli

Artistic Director, The Llanarth Group

Llanarth, UK

  • Working languages

    English

  • Professional activities

    directing, performing, teaching, practice-led research, performer training

  • Areas of interest

    acting, directing, theatre, performance, cross-cultural performance, psychophysical acting, Asian theatre, kalarippayattu, yoga, taiquiquan, kathakali, martial arts, collective creation, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp, Ōta Shōgo, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Jerzy Grotowski, theatre & performance studies, interculturalism, theatre history
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