Rare Doll Productions
Theatre
Awarded The Donegal Culture & Creativity Project Award Scheme 2024
I'm very grateful to have received this project award to write a full length play about Boy racers. The faith shown in my work is inspiring in itself, and the funding will allow me to carve out time to dedicate to this project. Thanks to the Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny for providing me with the assistance of their very talented writer in residence Ultan Pringle. And thanks for the support from the Abbey Theatre - their new work associate Jesse Weaver will review my work to help me create a solid script ready to move forward with for production.
Awarded The Arts Council Theatre Bursary Award 2021 - Round 2
Image by Brenda Kelly
I'm so grateful and delighted to have been awarded this theatre bursary award and the opportunity it gives me to develop my practice. I'm very much enjoyed working with my mentor for 2021/2022 -the amazing Little John Nee. We looked at the different ways of writing and portraying a range of marginalised characters in theatre and working on the physicality of presenting them on stage. The pieces developed were workshopped with local actors. I'm super thankful for this opportunity. Big thanks to the Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny for providing the space to workshop and get creative.
'ODD':
A play for Bread and Roses Theatre Company
Image by Rik Walton Photography
Image by Rik Walton Photography
Written by: Brenda Kelly
Workshopped by: Bread and Roses Theatre Company
Facilitated by: Kathleen McCreery
Year: 2016
In January 2016 Bread and Roses Theatre Company invited ten people, actors and writers, to create theatre pieces to get people talking about mental health. The result was a montage of plays and sketches telling different stories titled 'Waving not Drowning: The Mental Health Roadshow.' The plays were performed in theatres across Donegal and Derry in early 2017.
ODD:A play about Self Doubt and Love.
Outline: A woman with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and a man with Social Anxiety Disorder work at the same florist. Both are desperate for love. Though everything seems to be against them they manage, with the help of some rather crumbly chocolate hazelnut biscuits, to find True Love.
The actors were Cassie Riggs, Ronan Carr, Anne Gallagher, Aoife Toner and Michael Devlin.
Music Development: Sinead Gallagher
Director: Rosa Stourac McCreery.
Image by Rik Walton Photography
Awarded The Let's Make Some Noise Bursary for 2021
ODD: A play about Self Doubt and Love.
I'm delighted to have been awarded this bursary to write ODD as a full length musical play! Looking forward to exploring the characters more indepth and helping them to voice their truths through song with the help of the talented Fionn Robinson.
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