Whiting Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 23 (2007) Winner
Sheila Callaghan
しーら・きゃらはん
Shīra Kyarahan
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1973-01-24 （Queens, New York）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
Career
- Occupations
- Playwright, Screenwriter
- Active Years
- 1993-2024
- Memberships
- The Kilroys (founding member), 13P (founding member), New Dramatists (alumni)
- Nominations
- Golden Globe Award nomination 2016 for Casual, WGA nomination 2017 for Shameless episode "I Am A Storm"
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Princess Grace Award | — | — | Princess Grace Foundation-USA | winner |
| 2007 | Whiting Award | — | Drama | Whiting Foundation | winner |
| 2002 | Robert Chesley Award | — | — | Publishing Triangle | winner |
| 2007 | Susan Smith Blackburn Prize | Dead City | — | — | Special Commendation |
| 2014 | Ted Schmitt Award | — | world premiere of an outstanding new play | Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle | winner |
Princess Grace Award
2000
Organization:
Princess Grace Foundation-USA
Result:
winner
Whiting Award
2007
Category:
Drama
Organization:
Whiting Foundation
Result:
winner
Robert Chesley Award
2002
Organization:
Publishing Triangle
Result:
winner
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
2007
Work:
Dead City
Result:
Special Commendation
Ted Schmitt Award
2014
Category:
world premiere of an outstanding new play
Organization:
Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Women Laughing Alone With Salad
2011 PlayA play exploring gender identity.
genderidentity
Dead City
2006 PlayA modern-day riff on Ulysses set in Manhattan.
urban lifedeath
Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake)
PlayBibliography
- Scab
- Lascivious Something
- Dead City
- Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake)
- Crawl, Fade to White
- Kate Crackernuts
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- We Are Not These Hands
- Fever/Dream
- That Pretty Pretty (Or, The Rape Play)
- Roadkill Confidential
- Everything You Touch
- Port Out, Starboard Home
- Elevada
- Bed
- Women Laughing Alone With Salad
- (Not) The Water Project
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- comically engaging, subversively penetratingwhimsically eloquentunique and completely contemporarydownright weirdworld-weary tone and has a poet's gift for economical descriptionrealistic and unpredictable, dark and funny, reassuring and disturbing
Legacy
An American playwright and screenwriter who emerged from the 1990s RAT movement. Known for her distinctive style, she has received numerous awards and worked on television series.