Kate Cayley
Canadian writer and theatre director
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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]
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
- 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
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)