Kaite O'Reilly Author

Kaite O'Reilly has won many prizes for her work, including The Peggy Ramsay Award, and the Ted Hughes Award for new works in poetry for her retelling of Aeschylus’s Persians for National Theatre Wales. She was shortlisted for the inaugural international James Tait Black Award for Drama for In Water I’m Weightless, and a finalist in Susan Smith Blackburn’s international prize for women playwrights with The Almond and the Seahorse. In 2012 she had two Cultural Olympiad Commissions, In Water I’m Weightless produced by National Theatre Wales/South Bank Centre as part of the official festival celebrating the Olympics and Paralympics. In 2014 her performance text The 9 Fridas about Frida Kahlo was directed by Phillip Zarrilli with an integrated cast at the Taipei International Festival. A veteran of the UK’s Disability Civil Rights Movement and part of Disability arts and culture’s first wave, she is patron of Disability Arts Cymru and DaDaFest (Disability Arts Deaf Arts, the largest disability and Deaf cultural festival in the World).