Kathleen Cahill

Kathleen Cahill’s work has been produced around the country. She is the recipient of three Edgerton Foundation Awards, the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwriting Awards, a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award, a Rockefeller Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts New American Works Grant, a National New Play Network Commission, the Jane Chambers Award, and a Drama League Award. She was a Dramatists Guild Fund Travelling Master. Her play “Charm” (NNPN Showcase) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; her play “The Persian Quarter” was nominated for a Steinberg Award. She is also an opera librettist and a lyricist. Her libretto, “The Better Man,” was commissioned and produced by Utah Opera. Her new work includes “The Seed,” a musical workshop at Berklee College of Music, Boston (Michael Wartofsky, composer); “H-O-R-S-E” at the Road Theatre Summer Play Festival, L.A.; and “The Robertassey,” world premiere at the Salt Lake Acting Company, 24-25 Season. She writes what Alan Cumming says on PBS’s Mystery.