Miriam Kainy was born in Vienna, Austria and immigrated to Israel with her parents in 1950 at the age of 8. She studied history and philosophy at Tel Aviv University
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Marion Baraitser (ed)
Marion Baraitser is a commissioned Arts Council and BBC playwright. She is an award winning published playwright, short story writer, translator and editor. She took an M.A. in English Literature
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Nina Rapi is an award winning playwright and short story writer. Her plays have been produced/presented in venues such as: Riverside studios, Soho studio theatre, Southbank Centre (London Literature Festival); Tristan
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April De Angelis (born c.1960) is an English dramatist of part Sicilian descent. She is a graduate of Sussex University who trained at East 15 Acting School. Her play Crux
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Karin Young’s plays include Buffalo Girls and Here I Come for Live Theatre Co in Newcastle. Hatched Matched and Dispatched (with Gez Casey), Divvy Day For Doreen and Swinging Sisters
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Adah Kay is a social scientist, academic and writer. Between 2002-6 she lived and worked in Ramallah and with two colleagues wrote Stolen Youth (Pluto Press, 2004) about Palestinian children
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Gillian Plowman won the Verity Bargate Award in 1988 with Me and My Friend, a poignantly funny play about the release of four patients from a psychiatric hospital into the
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György Spiró born 1946 Budapest, Hungary. Studied Russian, Serbo-Croat and Hungarian Literature at Budapest University (ELTE). Gained fellow-ships in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. 1970-71 Journalist for Hungarian
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Andreea Vălean born in 1972. She has worked as a social worker in an orphanage and as an Account Executive for Saatchi and Saatchi. She has a Masters Degree in
Read moreNebojsa Romcevic
Nebojsa Romcevic born 1962, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Graduated 1988 from the Theatre Academy in Belgrade, Department of Dramaturgy. Achieved his Masters and PhD in Modern Drama Theory. Since 1988, he has
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Matei Visniec born in 1956 in Romania, now settled in Paris, working as a journalist at Radio France International. In Romania, he studied history and philosophy, before writing for the
Read moreAlice Chapin
Alice Chapin (1858-1924) born at Keene, New Hampshire, Chapin became an actress and spent her career partly in the USA, and partly in Britain. She married H.M. Ferris in 1885,
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