Kate Cayley | |
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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 |
Website | |
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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. [1]
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]
Kate Cayley | |
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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 |
Website | |
[1] |
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. [1]
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]