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

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

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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 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. 1 2 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. ↑ Qiao, Vicky (September 16, 2021). "Toronto poet Kate Cayley wins $20K Mitchell Prize for Faith and Poetry".
  11. ↑ "Governor-General's Literary Awards announces finalists". The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2014.
  12. ↑ "Yellow Wallpaper Project by Stranger Theatre at Artword Theatre". www.artword.net. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  13. ↑ "Friends of Dufferin Grove Park: East of the Sun Gallery 2003". www.dufferinpark.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  14. ↑ "And What Alice Found There". The Toronto Theatre Database. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  15. ↑ "Friends of Dufferin Grove Park: Cooking Fire Theatre Festival 2005". www.dufferinpark.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  16. ↑ "The Bakelite Masterpiece". The Toronto Theatre Database. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  17. ↑ "After Akhmatova". The Toronto Theatre Database. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  18. ↑ Arsenault, Tim (2018-09-26). "Halifax's interactive play: bring your Fitbit and your phone". The ChronicleHerald. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  19. ↑ "The Archive of Missing Things". The Toronto Theatre Database. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
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