Sheila Callaghan
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Sheila Callaghan is a New York-based playwright who emerged from the RAT movement of the 1990s. Her work is considered to be part of the downtown theater (or "experimental") scene, and is known for its unusual use of language and narrative structure. Her most successful play is Dead City, a free adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses, which was produced by New Georges in 2006 and reviewed favorably by The New York Times.
Her plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright's Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, and Moving Arts, among others. She is recipient of The Princess Grace Award, The LA Weekly Award, The Jerome Fellowship from the Playwright's Center, The Chesley Prize for Lesbian Playwriting, a MacDowell Residency, and a grant from The New York Foundation for The Arts. Her plays have been produced internationally in New Zealand, Norway, and the Czech Republic. She has been commissioned by Playwright's Horizons, South Coast Repertory, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Her full-length plays include Scab, The Hunger Waltz, Crawl Fade to White, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), We Are Not These Hands, Dead City, Lascivious Something, and Kate Crackernuts. Several of her plays are published by Playscripts, Inc. She is also the author of a popular blog about her life as a writer in New York City.