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name: "Kathleen Cahill"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kathleen-cahill"
fi1m_id: "kathleen-cahill"
tmdb_id: 3327988
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T15:14:54.381452+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kathleen Cahill

## Identity

Kathleen Cahill

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kathleen-cahill
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kathleen-cahill
- **TMDB ID:** 3327988
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3327988

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3327988

## 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.

*Sources: kathleencahillwriter.com, watch.plex.tv, saltlakeactingcompany.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Small Island* (2009), Fi1m 72, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/small-island.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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- *Small Island* (2009), series, Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/small-island.md)

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