Amy Rosenthal
Amy Rosenthal (born 1974[1]) is a British playwright from Muswell Hill, London. She took a Masters in Playwriting at Birmingham University.[2] She won the Sunday Times Drama Award with her debut play Henna Night in 1999. She is the daughter of Jack Rosenthal and Maureen Lipman.[3] Rosenthal is Jewish. In 2015, she wrote the libretto to the opera Entanglement by the composer Charlotte Bray.[4][5][6] Rosenthal was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for female dramatists. [7]
Plays
Rosenthal studied playwriting at the University of Birmingham.[3] Her plays include:[8]
- Sitting Pretty (1998)
- Henna Night (1999) (winner of the Sunday Times Drama Award 1999)[9]
- 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)[10]
References
- ↑ Library of Congress Name Authority File
- ↑ "Playwright Amy Rosenthal: 'Comedy and tragedy are the same'". Jewish News. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
- 1 2 Ham and High: "Amy Rosenthal dares to work with someone she hardly knows". Archived 12 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Pentreath, Rosie (6 March 2015). "Edward Gardner, Eric Whitacre and The King's Singers among artists announced for Cheltenham". BBC Music Magazine. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
- ↑ Evans, Rian (7 July 2015). "Entanglement/That Man Stephen Ward review – notorious deaths retold". The Guardian. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
- ↑ Davis, Colin (July 7, 2015). "The arts diary: Entanglement and That Man Stephen Ward, Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Music Festival". Gloucestershire Echo. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
- ↑ http://www.fertilityfest.com/amy-rosenthal
- ↑ Doollee: Amy Rosenthal
- ↑ officiallondontheatre.co.uk "Hampstead Announces New Play Is On The Rocks"
- ↑ Everyman programme of events Jan-Aug 2016
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