Kate Cayley is a Canadian writer and theatre director. She was the artistic director of Stranger Theatre[1] and was playwright-in-residence at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre from 2009 to 2017.[2]
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| Born | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | writer, theatre director |
| Genre | playwright, short stories, poetry, young adult literature |
| Notable works | How You Were Born, The Hangman in the Mirror, After Akhmatova |
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As a playwright, her plays have included The Yellow Wallpaper Project,[3] The Hanging of Françoise Laurent,[4] Clown of God, And What Alice Found There,[5] The Counterfeit Marquise,[6] After Akhmatova[7] and The Bakelite Masterpiece.[1]
Awards
editShe won the Geoffrey Bilson Award in 2012 for her young adult novel The Hangman in the Mirror,[8] and the Trillium Book Award in 2015 for her short story collection How You Were Born.[9] In 2021, she won the Mitchell Prize for Faith and Poetry.[10]
She was shortlisted for a ReLit Award in 2014 for her poetry collection How This World Comes to an End, and for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2015 Governor General's Awards for How You Were Born.[11]
Works
editPlays
edit- The Yellow Wallpaper Project (created from "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman)[12]
- The Clown of God
- East of the Sun, West of the Moon (based on East of the Sun and West of the Moon)[13]
- The Counterfeit Marquise (adapted from "The Counterfeit Marquise" by Charles Perrault)[6]
- And What Alice Found There (based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and other writings from Lewis Carroll)[14]
- The World Turned Upside Down (adapted from Gerrard Winstanley and Christopher Hill (historian))[15]
- The Hanging of Françoise Laurent (based on "Marrying the Hangman" by Margaret Atwood)[4]
- The Bakelite Masterpiece[16]
- After Akhmatova[17]
- This is Nowhere[18]
- The Archive of Missing Things[19]
Poetry
edit- Other Houses (Brick Books 2017; OCLC 961929434)
- When This World Comes to an End (Brick Books 2013; OCLC 823506493)
Short stories
edit- Householders (Biblioasis 2021; OCLC 1240576635)
- How You Were Born (Pedlar Press 2014; OCLC 879529181)
Young Adult Fiction
edit- The Hangman in the Mirror (Annick Press 2011; OCLC 709668217)
References
edit- ^ a b "Geordie Johnson and Irene Poole to Star in Tarragon's THE BAKELITE MASTERPIECE". BroadwayWorld, September 29, 2014.
- ^ McCann-Armitage, Zachary (2018-08-26). "'Superstitious about Self-Definition': A Q&A with Kate Cayley". White Wall Review. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ^ "The writhing on the wall". The Globe and Mail, November 3, 2002.
- ^ a b Rainford, Lisa (2010-08-03). "Atwood poem inspires stage production". Toronto.com. Archived from the original on 2019-07-05. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ^ Kaplan, Jon (2007-02-01). "Alice analyzed". NOW. Retrieved 2019-11-01.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b Kaplan, Jon (2004-02-04). "Potent puppets". Now, February 4, 2004.
- ^ "As dark as a day in the gulag". The Globe and Mail, June 18, 2015.
- ^ "Kid-lit winners announced". Ottawa Citizen, November 23, 2012.
- ^ "Kate Cayley wins Trillium Book Award: Toronto-based playwright, poet and novelist takes $20K prize with collection of short stories". Toronto Star, June 18, 2015.
- ^ Qiao, Vicky (September 16, 2021). "Toronto poet Kate Cayley wins $20K Mitchell Prize for Faith and Poetry".
- ^ "Governor-General's Literary Awards announces finalists". The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2014.
- ^ "Yellow Wallpaper Project by Stranger Theatre at Artword Theatre". www.artword.net. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ^ "Friends of Dufferin Grove Park: East of the Sun Gallery 2003". www.dufferinpark.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ^ "And What Alice Found There". The Toronto Theatre Database. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ^ "Friends of Dufferin Grove Park: Cooking Fire Theatre Festival 2005". www.dufferinpark.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ^ "The Bakelite Masterpiece". The Toronto Theatre Database. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ^ "After Akhmatova". The Toronto Theatre Database. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ^ Arsenault, Tim (2018-09-26). "Halifax's interactive play: bring your Fitbit and your phone". The ChronicleHerald. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ^ "The Archive of Missing Things". The Toronto Theatre Database. Retrieved 2019-11-01.