Amy Rosenthal
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Amy Rosenthal (born 1974)[1] is a British playwright from Muswell Hill, London. She is a recipient of The Sunday Times Drama Award.
Biography
Amy Rosenthal was born in 1974, the daughter of dramatist Jack Rosenthal and actress Maureen Lipman.[2] She is Jewish.[3]
Rosenthal studied to be a playwright at the University of Birmingham,[2] where she took a Masters in Playwriting.[4]
She won The Sunday Times Drama Award with her debut play Henna Night in 1999. In 2015, she wrote the libretto to the opera Entanglement by the composer Charlotte Bray.[5][6][7] Rosenthal was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for female dramatists.[8] Rosenthal teaches playwriting on the Arvon courses, and at Birkbeck College, University of London.[9]
Plays
Her plays include:[10]
- Sitting Pretty (1998)
- Henna Night (1999) (winner of the Sunday Times Drama Award 1999)[11]
- Jerusalem Syndrome (2000)
- Little Words (radio play)
- Jack Rosenthal's Last Act (4-part series adapted from book for BBC Radio 4)
- Thank God It's Friday (co-written with Cosh Omar 2007)
- On The Rocks (2008) (about D. H. Lawrence and his circle, shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2009)
- The Jitterbug Blitz (2009)
- The Workroom (adapted from L'Atelier by Jean-Claude Grumberg)
- Fear of Cherry Blossom (premiere at Cheltenham Everyman Studio Theatre, 2016)[12]
References
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