Profession:
Playwright/Scriptwriter, Director
Kaite O’Reilly is an award-winning dramaturg, playwright and screenwriter. Awards include Ted Hughes Award, Peggy Ramsay Award, and Theatre-Wales Award. She has been a two-time finalist in the James Tait Black Prize for Innovation in Drama and was honoured in the International Eliot Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy in 2017/18 for ‘Alternative Dramaturgies Informed by a Deaf and Disability Perspective’. Her debut feature film screenplay, The Almond and the Seahorse, starring Rebel Wilson and Charlotte Gainsbourg, won the Special Jury’s Prize (‘Hitchcock’) at Dinard Film Festival. A leading figure in disability arts and culture, O’Reilly’s pioneering plays for disabled and Deaf actors are produced internationally. Her acclaimed collections, Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors and The ‘d’ Monologues are published by Bloomsbury/Oberon. She is dramaturg and associate director for Rambert’s ‘Peaky Blinders’ ballet and is co-adapting TV series It’s a Sin for Rambert with artistic director/choreographer Benoit Swan Pouffer.
