Biography
Kathleen Cahill is a playwright, screenwriter and lyricist. She trained in musical theatre at the Tisch School of the Arts and is playwright-in-residence at the Salt Lake Acting Company.
Her television work includes writing introductions for the PBS series Masterpiece and Mystery!, and she is credited as writer on the 2009 adaptation of Small Island. She wrote the screenplay for the independent feature Downtown Express.
Her plays include Charm, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and The Persian Quarter, nominated for a Steinberg Award (both published by Dramatic Publishing). She has received three Edgerton Foundation Awards, the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwriting Awards, a Rockefeller Grant and a Drama League Award.
