Kathleen Cahill
Kathleen Cahill’s awards include three Edgerton Foundation Awards, the Jane
Chambers Playwrighting Award, two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwrighting
Awards, a MassachusettsArtists Foundation Award, a Rockefeller Grant, a National
Endowment for theArts New American Works Grant, and a Drama League Award. Her
play Charm (NNPN Showcase) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; her...
Kathleen Cahill’s awards include three Edgerton Foundation Awards, the Jane
Chambers Playwrighting Award, two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwrighting
Awards, a MassachusettsArtists Foundation Award, a Rockefeller Grant, a National
Endowment for theArts New American Works Grant, and a Drama League Award. Her
play Charm (NNPN Showcase) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; her play The Persian
Quarter was nominated for a Steinberg Award.(Both published by Dramatic Publishing.)
Her produced musicals include Friendship of the Sea (North Shore Music Theatre)
Dakota Sky;(Olney Theatre) an opera, Clara, two opera/cabarets, A Tale of Two Cities:
Paris and Berlin in the Twenties (Maryland Center for the Performing Arts), a comic
opera cabaret, Fatal Song (most recently Utah Opera) and Perdida, the Winter’s Tale set
in Mexico.(most recently Catholic University, DC and the Grand Theatre, Salt Lake
City. Published by Dramatic Publishing.) Her plays include the comedy, Course 86B in
the Catalogue (Salt Lake Acting Company) The Still Time (Georgia Rep/ Porchlight
Theatre, Chicago) the comedy, Women Who Love Science Too Much (Porchlight Theatre
and NPR Radio) Joy Forever (Cleveland Public, Firehouse Theatre, Massachusetts)
Charm ( National New Play Network Festival, Salt Lake Acting Company premiere,
Kitchen Dog Theatre, Dallas; Orlando Shakespeare; Taffety Punk, Washington D.C.
among others) The Persian Quarter ( Salt Lake Acting Company, Merrimack Rep.)
Harbur Gate, an NNPN commission. (Salt Lake Acting Company, 16thstreet theatre,
Chicago) Upcoming: The Robertassey, (Roberta's odyssey) a comedy about grief, at the Women’s Playwrights Initiative, Ivoryton Playhouse, CT. A new play/dance/romance, Silent Dancer, opens in Spring 2019 at the Salt Lake Acting Company, and later at BStreet Theatre, Sacramento. She wrote the screenplay for the independent feature, Downtown Express. She is Playwrightin-Residence at the Salt Lake Acting Company.