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 screenwriter Jack Rosenthal and actress Maureen Lipman; she and her brother were raised in their parents' Jewish faith.[3]

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] Rosenthal teaches playwrighting on the Arvon courses.[8]

Plays

Rosenthal studied to be a playwright at the University of Birmingham.[3] Her plays include:[9]

  • Sitting Pretty (1998)
  • Henna Night (1999) (winner of the Sunday Times Drama Award 1999)[10]
  • 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)[11]

References

  1. ↑ "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Playwright Amy Rosenthal: 'Comedy and tragedy are the same'". Jewish News. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  3. 1 2 Ham and High: "Amy Rosenthal dares to work with someone she hardly knows" Archived 12 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Evans, Rian (7 July 2015). "Entanglement/That Man Stephen Ward review – notorious deaths retold". The Guardian. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ Davis, Colin (7 July 2015). "The arts diary: Entanglement and That Man Stephen Ward, Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Music Festival". Gloucestershire Echo. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  7. ↑ "Fertility Fest 2016". Fertility Fest 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  8. ↑ "STARTING TO WRITE A PLAY - a course at Arvon". Arvon.org. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  9. ↑ "Amy Rosenthal". Doollee.com. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  10. ↑ "Hampstead announces new play is On The Rocks". Officiallondontheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  11. ↑ Everyman programme of events Jan-Aug 2016


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