SHEILA
CALLAGHAN's
plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright's Horizons,
South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Actor's Theatre of Louisville,
New Georges, Annex Theatre, Moving Arts, and LABrynth, among others.
Sheila is the recipient of a 2000 Princess Grace Award for emerging
artists, a 2001 LA Weekly Award for Best One-act, a 2001-02 Jerome Fellowship
from the Playwright's Center in Minneapolis, a 2002 Chesley Prize for
Lesbian Playwriting, a 2003 Mac Dowell Residency, and a 2004 NYFA grant.
She is currently working on commissions from Playwright's Horizons,
South Coast Repertory, and EST/Sloan. Her full-length plays include
SCAB, THE HUNGER WALTZ, CRAWL FADE TO WHITE, CRUMBLE (Lay Me Down, Justin
Timberlake), WE ARE NOT THESE HANDS, DEAD CITY, LASCIVIOUS SOMETHING,
KATE CRACKERNUTS and her opera ELEMENTAL with music by Sophocles Papavasilopoulos.
Three monologues from her plays are featured in Heinemann's series,
MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN, BY WOMEN. She teaches playwriting at The College
of New Jersey, and is a proud member of the playwright's organization
13P.
WE
ARE NOT THESE HANDS
Ever
since their school blew up, Moth and Belly have taken to stalking an
illegal internet café in the hopes of one day being allowed in.
They take particular interest in Leather, a skittish older man doing
research in the café. He is a self-proclaimed "freelance
scholar" from a foreign land with a sketchy past and a sticky secret.
Leather begins to fall head over heals in love with Moth… but
what about Belly? This play explores the effects of rampant capitalism
on a country that is ill-prepared for it.
