Amy Rosenthal

Amy Rosenthal (born 1974)[1] is a British playwright from Muswell Hill, London. She is a recipient of The Sunday Times Drama Award.

For the American author, see Amy Krouse Rosenthal.

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
  1. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  2. "Amy Rosenthal dares to work with someone she hardly knows". Ham and High. 6 September 2007. Archived from the original on 12 May 2008.
  3. "Interview: Amy Rosenthal". The Jewish Chronicle. 7 April 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  4. "Playwright Amy Rosenthal: 'Comedy and tragedy are the same'". Jewish News. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  5. Pentreath, Rosie (6 March 2015). "Edward Gardner, Eric Whitacre and The King's Singers among artists announced for Cheltenham". BBC Music Magazine. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  6. Evans, Rian (7 July 2015). "Entanglement/That Man Stephen Ward review – notorious deaths retold". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  7. Davis, Colin (7 July 2015). "The arts diary: Entanglement and That Man Stephen Ward, Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Music Festival". Gloucestershire Echo. Archived from the original on 14 August 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  8. "Fertility Fest 2016". Fertility Fest 2016. Archived from the original on 25 August 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  9. "STARTING TO WRITE A PLAY - a course at Arvon". Arvon.org. Archived from the original on 25 August 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  10. "Amy Rosenthal". Doollee.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2007. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  11. "Hampstead announces new play is On The Rocks". Officiallondontheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  12. Everyman programme of events Jan-Aug 2016
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