Kate Cayley

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]

Kate Cayley
BornOttawa, Ontario, Canada
Occupationwriter, theatre director
Genreplaywright, short stories, poetry, young adult literature
Notable worksHow You Were Born, The Hangman in the Mirror, After Akhmatova
Website

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] She was also 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.[10]

Works

Plays

Poetry
  • Other Houses (Brick Books 2017; OCLC 961929434)
  • When This World Comes to an End (Brick Books 2013; OCLC 823506493)

Short stories
  • Householders (Biblioasis 2021; OCLC 1240576635)
  • How You Were Born (Pedlar Press 2014; OCLC 879529181)

Young Adult Fiction
  • The Hangman in the Mirror (Annick Press 2011; OCLC 709668217)

References
  1. "Geordie Johnson and Irene Poole to Star in Tarragon's THE BAKELITE MASTERPIECE". BroadwayWorld, September 29, 2014.
  2. McCann-Armitage, Zachary (2018-08-26). "'Superstitious about Self-Definition': A Q&A with Kate Cayley". White Wall Review. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  3. "The writhing on the wall". The Globe and Mail, November 3, 2002.
  4. Rainford, Lisa (2010-08-03). "Atwood poem inspires stage production". Toronto.com. Archived from the original on 2019-07-05. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  5. Kaplan, Jon (2007-02-01). "Alice analyzed". NOW. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  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. "Governor-General's Literary Awards announces finalists". The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2014.
  11. "Yellow Wallpaper Project by Stranger Theatre at Artword Theatre". www.artword.net. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  12. "Friends of Dufferin Grove Park: East of the Sun Gallery 2003". www.dufferinpark.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  13. "And What Alice Found There". The Toronto Theatre Database. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  14. "Friends of Dufferin Grove Park: Cooking Fire Theatre Festival 2005". www.dufferinpark.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  15. "The Bakelite Masterpiece". The Toronto Theatre Database. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  16. "After Akhmatova". The Toronto Theatre Database. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  17. Arsenault, Tim (2018-09-26). "Halifax's interactive play: bring your Fitbit and your phone". The ChronicleHerald. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  18. "The Archive of Missing Things". The Toronto Theatre Database. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
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