Caitlin Magnall-Kearns

Writer Theatre Maker Director

Hello, my name is Caitlin (she/they) and I am a writer from and based in Belfast. I like to make work that puts untold and unheard Northern Irish stories at the centre of them. As a plus-size, queer, disabled artist, I am passionate about bringing marginalised stories to the fore and telling them with honesty, compassion and humour.

I have recently finished up six months as a New Playwright with the Lyric Theatre, Belfast developing my new play “Wee Buns” a comedy about fatness and fertility, which had a public reading in October 2021, and I have just finished writing an audio drama for BBC Radio 4 that is due to be broadcast in early 2022. In addition to this I am a current participant on the X-Pollinator Programme by Elevator, which is supported by Screen Ireland, Screen Skills Ireland and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. The scheme amplifies and supports female and non-binary writing and directing talent in Ireland, and with them I am developing my six-part comedy-drama Chris & Lou.

Credits

Recent Credits Include-

WRITER, Wee Buns, Lyric Theatre, Rehearsed Reading, 2021
WRITER, the rabbit died, Pentabus Theatre, Audio Drama, 2021
WRITER, Weightless, Velvet Smoke Productions, Monologue, 2021
WRITER God Only Knows, Big Telly Theatre Company, Monologue, 2021
WRITER/DIRECTOR DOODY, Brighton Fringe, One-Man Show, 2021

Training

2021 X-Pollinator Elevator Development Programme
2021 TikTok Shocks with Headlong and Theatre Centre
2021 BFI Short Film Development Lab, The Nerve Centre
2021 Adapting and Directing (Emma Rice), The School for Wise Children
2020-2021 Pentabus Young Writers Group
2020 Introduction to Playwriting (Chris Bush), The National Theatre
2018-2019 Young Directors Course, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse
2017-2019 HE Diploma in Drama, Liverpool John Moores University

Location

Belfast

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Comedy
  • Literature
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - drama

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with learning disabled artists
  • Working with young people
  • Writing

Additional Languages

No

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