Ty Newydd Course Brochure - Literature Wales

Kaite O’Reilly received the 2010/11 Ted Hughes Award for
New works in Poetry for Persians with National Theatre wales,
directed by Mike Pearson, in a celebrated site-specific
production on Ministry of Defence land. Kaite was one of the
winners of the 2009 international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
for The Almond and the Seahorse (Sherman Cymru, 2008). She was
also awarded The Peggy Ramsay Award for yARD, and MEN
best play of 2004 for Perfect. Productions in 2012 include
The Echo Chamber with The Llanarth Group at Chapter Arts
Centre, Cardiff (Jan/Feb), and two Cultural Olympiad projects,
part of the official celebrations for the 2012 London Games:
Leaner Faster Stronger, a co-production with Chol/Sheffield
Crucible Theatres (May), and In Water I’m Weightless with National
Theatre wales at wales Millennium Centre (July), both part
of the Cultural Olympiad. She is an experienced mentor
and tutor, who has developed writers in projects for the
National Theatre/Tŷ Newydd, writernet/Soho/Graeae Theatre
companies, and Birmingham Rep’, amongst others. She has
taught playwriting and dramaturgy at postgraduate level at
a variety of universities internationally. She is an honorary
fellow of Exeter university’s Drama Department, and a Fellow
of ‘Interweaving Performance Cultures,’ Freie university, Berlin.
www.kaiteoreilly.com
Fee: £645
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