Kathryn O'Reilly

Early life

She began training in local youth theatre in Surrey before going to the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, she also trained at BRIT Performing Arts School, attended Anna Scher and Ken Campbell classes and completed her classical training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in 2008 where she won the original poetry writing competition two years consecutively; in 2007 with her poem Him and Me and in 2008 with Klink Klank Echoes that she performed with fellow class mate Gary Carr.

It was during her first year of training at LAMDA that she landed the role of Penny Collins in The Bill and in the second year she started filming on the award winning feature film Zebra Crossing directed by Sam Holland.

Career

Kathryn graduated from LAMDA with a Bachelor of Arts hons in 2008. During her training, Kathryn acted in many productions at LAMDA; Breaking Barriers In Burnley, Twelfth Night, Blue Remembered Hills and also director showcases; After The Accident directed by Edwina Casey, Peter Pan also starring Sam Claflin and Desdemona a play about a Handkerchief.

Kathryn's theatre work includes four tours for leading touring theatre company Out Of Joint directed by Max Stafford-Clark. Kathryn O'Reilly is the longest standing actress to play Liz Morden in Our Country's Good having given over 318 performances and receiving rave reviews.

Theatre

Theatre includes; for Out of Joint A View From Islington North (Arts Theatre, Leicester Square), Liz Morden / Will Dawes for Out of Joint 2014 international tour and 2012/13 tour of Our Country's Good (St James Theatre), Andersen's English (Hampstead Theatre) & Mixed Up North (Wilton's Music Hall), all directed by Max Stafford-Clark Arms and the Man (Watford Palace Theatre) Caught (Arcola Theatre) hamlet is dead. no gravity (Arcola Theatre) The Golden Dragon (Plymouth theatre Royal) Love on the Tracks (Soho Theatre Studio & Redbridge Drama Centre) A Christmas Carol (Trafalgar Studios), Oedipus (Sheffield Crucible) Rift (Brewhouse Theatre) was granted the prestigious Inspire mark by the London 2012 Inspire programme.

Television

Film

includes; Zebra Crossing (Crown Films; winner of Raindance award; Socal California, Radar Hamberg film festival); Cold Calling (Woolfcub films, winner of indi short film comp 2008); Los Jack Machine (Free Seed Films, winner Best Shorts awards winner, nominated for outstanding cast performanceAOF International film festival), Klink Klank (DameTK Productions); RANDOM (Channel 4 & Hillbilly Films, winner of BAFTA 2012 best single drama).

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Playwriting

Kathryn's debut play Screwed premiered at Theatre503 June - July 2016 and is published by Nick Hern Books