1. Sheila Callaghan was born on 1973 and is a playwright and screenwriter who emerged from the RAT movement of the 1990s.
12 Facts About Sheila Callaghan
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Sheila Callaghan has been profiled by American Theater Magazine, "The Brooklyn Rail", Theatermania, and The Village Voice.
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Sheila Callaghan's work has been published in American Theatre magazine.
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Sheila Callaghan is a founding member of feminist advocacy group The Kilroys, who created the Kilroys' List.
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Sheila Callaghan is a founding member of the playwrights' collective 13P and an alumni member of New Dramatists.
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Sheila 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.
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Sheila Callaghan won a Robert Chesley Award from Publishing Triangle in 2002.
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Sheila Callaghan has 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.
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Sheila 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.
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Sheila Callaghan is married to composer and producer Sophocles Papavasilopoulos, with whom she has a son.
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Sheila Callaghan's 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.
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Sheila Callaghan has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre.