Kaite O’Reilly is a multi-award winning playwright and dramaturg, who writes for radio, screen and live performance. Prizes include the Peggy Ramsay Award, Manchester Theatre Award, Theatre-Wales Award and the Ted Hughes Award for new works in Poetry. She was honoured in the 2017/18 International Eliot Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy for ‘Alternative Dramaturgies informed by a Deaf and disability Perspective’. A leading figure in disability arts and culture, she is currently writing and directing an Unlimited International commission, to be produced in Malaysia and UK in 2026. Her Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors and The ‘d’ Monologues are published by Oberon/Bloomsbury. She was production dramaturg and narrative director on Rambert’s dance theatre show, Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby. Her first feature film, The Almond and the Seahorse, featuring Rebel Wilson and Charlotte Gainsbourg, won the Special Jury’s Prize at Dinard Film Festival 2023.
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