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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.

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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]

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  2. 1 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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