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IMELDA O'REILLY
Imelda O' Reilly is a writer, director and filmmaker. Her theatrical work
has been produced and performed in New York, Paris and London. Her published works include a collection of poems
entitled I Wake In Half Dream, published by Lapwing Press. Her short fiction appears in Shenanigans
published by Sceptre in the UK. Imelda also has a collection of poems put to music by Grammy nominee Joel Diamond
entitled In People's Heads.
The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation and Unity Theatre Company have funded Imelda's theatrical work. She is a
recipient of a fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts for her writing in 2001. More recently she received
grants from the Irish Arts Council and a production grant from New York Women in Film for the "Most Promising Female
Director" attending Columbia University.
A scene from Emilita and the Faery Glen Imelda has written and directed four short films.
The Seamonster and the Milk Thistle appeared in numerous film festivals, and won an award for Best
Cinematography at the Chicks With Flicks Film Festival in Manhattan in 2003.
Imelda O'Reilly and Amy Cox in a scene from Some reviews of Imelda's work:
Sultry Irish poet broke more than balls at the Lower East Side Arts Festival
Nick Brandi - Showbiz Weekly
Imelda is a cross between Israeli Chanteuse Ofra Haza and Talking Heads.
Frank Owens - Village Voice
It is an uncommon pleasure to see such creativity matched with consummate professionalism on all levels in a production which arrives on a wing and a prayer. Faz In Ate is a funny, moving, and an exceptionally enjoyable piece of theatre. Clamor at the doors. THE IRISH VOICE review of FAZ IN ATE
"The beautiful faery tale Emilita and the Faery Glen is part theatrical poem, part theater, influenced by the beat poets and harkening further back to a whimsical Irish tradition." Caraid O'Brien Off Broadway.com
Among the five plays she has written and directed, her second,
Faz In Ate, was selected for the Mabou Mines Artist in Residence Program in 2000. It was then co-produced
by Deadalus Theatre Company in New York. Imelda's Emilita and the Faery Glen, also co-produced by
Deadalus Theatre Company, was first broadcast at Symphony Space on Broadway by WNYC in 2001. She is currently
commissioned by Mabou Mines for their upcoming play entitled Song For New York due out in the summer of
2007.
pic: James Higgins
Imelda is currently an MFA candidate in film at Columbia University. Her screenplay
entitled Beneath the Boy's Cry is currently short listed for the 2007 Sundance Screenwriter's and
Director's Lab.
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Emilita and the Faery Glen