All My Sons
Kirby turned down her place at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art after she was signed to a talent agency and met the theatre director David Thacker, who gave her three starring roles over 2009 at the Octagon Theatre Bolton: in "All My Sons" by Arthur Miller, "Ghosts" by Henrik Ibsen, and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare. For "All My Sons" she won the BIZA Rising Star Award at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards, worth £5,000.