Kathleen Cahill’s work in theatre and musical theatre has been seen across the country at the Kennedy Center, the Porchlight Theatre in Chicago, in Maryland at the Olney Theatre and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Arlington’s Signature Theatre, Palo Alto’s TheatreWorks, the Berkshire’s Barrington Stage Company, the North Shore Music Theatre in Massachusetts, and the Georgia Rep. Three of her plays have been broadcast on National Public Radio, and over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Her awards include the Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts New American Works Grant, a Rockefeller Foundation Study Grant to Bellagio, Italy, an Eastern Frontier Artist’s Award, a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award, a Connecticut Commission for the Arts Playwrighting Award, and a Drama League Award. Her recent non-musical works include the screenplay, Russian Blue for David Grubin Productions; the comedy Women Who Love Science Too Much, and The Still Time. Musical works include Dakota Sky, the libretto for the opera Clara, Perdita, Captivated, and a commission, The Navigator. She has also written two cabaret pieces, Tale of Two Cities: Paris and Berlin in the Twenties, and Fatal Song, a comedy about all the women who die in opera.

In addition, she is the story editor of Masterpiece Theatre on Public Television, and has recently been Visiting Professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Utah.

She received an MFA in Writing for Music-Theatre from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, is a member of ASCAP, the Dramatists Guild and the Writer’s Guild of America East.