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Featured Playwright
Kariselkelly
About Me: Karis Kelly (she/they) is an award-winning Northern Irish playwright and screenwriter. In 2022, Karis was selected as the winner of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting, for their play, Consumed. They were also the recipient of the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and Film4 Playwright's Scheme Bursary, joining The Lyric, Belfast as their writer-in-residence. In early 2024 Karis was chosen to be a part of the inaugural Women in Theatre Lab UK. They currently have an original drama series in development with World Productions. For the screen: HOPE STREET - various episodes, (Longstory TV, BBC Northern Ireland, Britbox) PERIOD PIECE (Underwire Film Festival, Vancouver Women In Film Festival, Cineffable - Paris Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival), THE BREAK (BBC Three and BBC Northern Ireland).
Featured Play
Write from the Heart
Short Play: Two friends reconnect after years apart through the old-fashioned art of ‘letter writing’. Both living very different lives, thousands of miles between them, Emily and Alex find themselves drawn into a tangled web of memories. Will they find the happiness they both crave? Just how much power is there in the written word?
Playwright: Perri Ann Barley