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Sheila Callaghan (born 1973) is a playwright and screenwriter who emerged from the RAT (Regional Alternative Theatre) movement of the 1990s. She has been profiled by American Theater Magazine, "The Brooklyn Rail", Theatermania, and The Village Voice. Her work has been published in American Theatre magazine.
In 2010, Callaghan was profiled by Marie Claire as one of "18 successful women who are changing the world." She was also named one of Variety magazine's "10 Screenwriters to Watch" of 2010. She was nominated for a 2016 Golden Globe Award for her work on the Hulu comedy series Casual, and a 2017 WGA nomination for her episode "I Am A Storm" from Season 7 of the comedy/drama series Shameless.




Style


Callaghan's writing has been described as "comically engaging, subversively penetrating", "whimsically eloquent", "unique and completely contemporary", and "downright weird". The New York Times has said Callaghan "writes with a world-weary tone and has a poet's gift for economical description," and the Philadelphia Weekly has called Callaghan a "provocative playwright" with a "national following" who "creates work that's realistic and unpredictable, dark and funny, reassuring and disturbing."




Memberships


Callaghan is a founding member of feminist advocacy group The Kilroys, who created the Kilroys' List. She is also a founding member of the playwrights' collective 13P and an alumni member of New Dramatists.




Awards and honors


Callaghan is the recipient of several writing awards, including the 2000 Princess Grace Award, the 2014 Ted Schmitt Award for the world premiere of an outstanding new play by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and the 2007 Whiting Award for Drama. She also won a Robert Chesley Award from Publishing Triangle in 2002. In 2007, her play Dead City won a Special Commendation Award for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
She has also received a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights' Center, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a grant from New York Foundation for the Arts, and a New York State Council on the Arts grant.




Teaching


Callaghan has taught playwriting and English at the University of Rochester, The College of New Jersey, Spalding University, Brooklyn College, LaGuardia Community College, and Florida State University.




Personal


She is married to composer and producer Sophocles Papavasilopoulos, with whom she has a son.




Plays by Sheila Callaghan


Her most well-known play to date is Women Laughing Alone With Salad, which was featured on The Kilroys' List in 2014. Her other plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, The Flea Theater, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, PlayPenn, Collision Theatre Company, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, the Bloomington Playwrights Project, Theatre of NOTE, Impact Theatre, foolsFURY Theater Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Moving Arts, among others.
Internationally, her plays have been produced in New Zealand, Norway, Germany, Portugal, and the Czech Republic. She has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Several of her plays are published by Playscripts, Inc., Samuel French Inc., and S. Fischer Verlag (in German translation), and she has been anthologized in the New York Theatre Review and others. A collection of her plays was published in 2011 by Soft Skull Press.
List of long plays:

Scab
Lascivious Something
Dead City
Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) (originally produced by Clubbed Thumb)
Crawl, Fade to White
Kate Crackernuts
Star-Crossed Lovers
We Are Not These Hands
Fever/Dream
That Pretty Pretty (Or, The Rape Play) (originally produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
Roadkill Confidential (originally produced by Clubbed Thumb)
Everything You Touch
Port Out, Starboard Home (created with FoolsFURY Theater and produced by La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club)
Elevada (originally produced by Yale Repertory Theatre)
Bed
Women Laughing Alone With Salad (originally produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company)
(Not) The Water Project
List of short plays:

New Shoes
Tumor
American Jack
Blue Lila Rising
Ayravana Flies or A Pretty Dish
The Transit Plays
He Ate the Sun
Soak
Hold This
Other:

(contribution to:) Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular: a vaudevillean collaboration




Film and television


Callaghan is a writer/producer for the Showtime series Shameless and was a writer for two seasons on United States of Tara. She was also a writer/producer on the Hulu comedy series Casual. Her pilot Over/Under was filmed for the USA Network, starring Steven Pasquale and Caroline Dhavernas. She was hired to write the film adaptation of I Dream of Jeannie by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Escape Artists.




See also



The Biology of Luck




References






External links


Official site
Information on Sheila Callaghan by doollee.com
Profile and Production History at The Whiting Foundation
Gelt, Jessica (2016-03-09). "Sheila Callaghan plays with gender identity in 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad'". Los Angeles Times.
Hart, Sarah (2008-10-01). "Blow Me Up, Lay Me Down". American Theatre Magazine. Archived from the original on 2016-10-02. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
Robertson, Campbell (2006-06-15). "Playwright of 'Dead City' Substitutes Manhattan for Dublin". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
Rennie, Adrian (2005-10-07). "Interview". Maestro Arts and Reviews.

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