Karis Kelly

Karis Kelly won the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2021 for their play Consumed. Karis was selected for the 2022 Playwright’s Scheme Bursary run by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation with Film4 and the Maria Bjornson Memorial Fund, developing a new play with the Lyric, Belfast, as their writer in residence. In 2024 Karis was selected for the inaugural UK Women In Theatre Lab. Other theatre work includes a piece for the Lyric Theatre, Belfast’s “Listen at the Lyric” programme titled Outside Her and The Childless Aunt for Accidental Theatre, Belfast’s “No Touching Theatre” Festival. She has worked with Theatre503, The Arcola, the Bush Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Nabokov and DryWrite. Karis facilitates Fighting Words’ Young Playwrights Programme and Papatango’s GoWrite programme. Karis has written on three series of Hope Street for Long Story TV/BBC and is developing drama projects for Two Cities and World Productions. Previously she developed drama projects for Objective Fiction and Universal Content Productions.