Kate Cayley Explained

Kate Cayley
Birth Place:Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:writer, theatre director
Genre:playwright, short stories, poetry, young adult literature
Notableworks:How You Were Born, The Hangman in the Mirror, After Akhmatova
Website:http://www.katecayley.ca/

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]

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.

Awards

She 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

Plays

Poetry

Short stories

Young Adult Fiction

Notes and References

  1. http://www.broadwayworld.com/toronto/article/Geordie-Johnson-and-Irene-Poole-to-Star-in-Tarragon-THE-BAKELITE-MASTERPIECE-20140929 "Geordie Johnson and Irene Poole to Star in Tarragon's THE BAKELITE MASTERPIECE"
  2. Web site: 'Superstitious about Self-Definition': A Q&A with Kate Cayley. McCann-Armitage. Zachary. 2018-08-26. White Wall Review. en-US. 2019-11-01.
  3. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/the-writhing-on-the-wall/article758132/ "The writhing on the wall"
  4. Web site: Atwood poem inspires stage production. Rainford. Lisa. 2010-08-03. Toronto.com. en-CA. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190705225737/https://www.toronto.com/community-story/54441-atwood-poem-inspires-stage-production/. 2019-07-05. 2019-11-01.
  5. Web site: Kaplan . Jon . Jon Kaplan (theatre critic) . 2007-02-01 . Alice analyzed . 2019-11-01 . NOW . en-us.
  6. Kaplan, Jon (2004-02-04). "Potent puppets". Now, February 4, 2004.
  7. "As dark as a day in the gulag". The Globe and Mail, June 18, 2015.
  8. "Kid-lit winners announced". Ottawa Citizen, November 23, 2012.
  9. "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.
  10. Web site: Qiao . Vicky . September 16, 2021 . Toronto poet Kate Cayley wins $20K Mitchell Prize for Faith and Poetry .
  11. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/governor-generals-literary-awards-announces-finalists/article26696187/ "Governor-General's Literary Awards announces finalists"
  12. Web site: Yellow Wallpaper Project by Stranger Theatre at Artword Theatre. www.artword.net. 2019-11-01.
  13. Web site: Friends of Dufferin Grove Park: East of the Sun Gallery 2003. www.dufferinpark.ca. 2019-11-01.
  14. Web site: And What Alice Found There. The Toronto Theatre Database. en-US. 2019-11-01.
  15. Web site: Friends of Dufferin Grove Park: Cooking Fire Theatre Festival 2005. www.dufferinpark.ca. 2019-11-01.
  16. Web site: The Bakelite Masterpiece. The Toronto Theatre Database. en-US. 2019-11-01.
  17. Web site: After Akhmatova. The Toronto Theatre Database. en-US. 2019-11-01.
  18. Web site: Halifax's interactive play: bring your Fitbit and your phone. Arsenault. Tim. 2018-09-26. The ChronicleHerald. en. 2019-11-01.
  19. Web site: The Archive of Missing Things. The Toronto Theatre Database. en-US. 2019-11-01.

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