Amy Rosenthal Explained
Amy Rosenthal (born 1974)[1] is a British playwright from Muswell Hill, London. She is a recipient of The Sunday Times Drama Award.
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]
Notes and References
- Web site: LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress). id.loc.gov. 24 August 2017.
- News: Amy Rosenthal dares to work with someone she hardly knows. Ham and High. 6 September 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20080512115245/http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/content/camden/hamhigh/whatson/story.aspx?brand=northlondon24&category=whatsontheatre&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=whatson&itemid=WeED06%20Sep%202007%2015%3A25%3A45%3A310. 12 May 2008. dead.
- News: Interview: Amy Rosenthal. The Jewish Chronicle. 7 April 2011. 22 November 2019.
- Web site: Playwright Amy Rosenthal: 'Comedy and tragedy are the same'. Jewish News. 29 December 2015.
- Web site: Pentreath. Rosie. Edward Gardner, Eric Whitacre and The King's Singers among artists announced for Cheltenham. BBC Music Magazine. 6 March 2015. 8 August 2016.
- Web site: Evans. Rian. Entanglement/That Man Stephen Ward review – notorious deaths retold. The Guardian. 7 July 2015. August 8, 2016.
- Web site: Davis. Colin. The arts diary: Entanglement and That Man Stephen Ward, Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Music Festival. Gloucestershire Echo. 7 July 2015. 8 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20150814171144/http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/arts-diary-Entanglement-Man-Stephen-Ward-Parabola/story-26847658-detail/story.html. 14 August 2015. dead. dmy-all.
- Web site: Fertility Fest 2016. Fertility Fest 2016. 24 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170825061554/http://www.fertilityfest.com/amy-rosenthal. 25 August 2017. dead.
- Web site: STARTING TO WRITE A PLAY – a course at Arvon. Arvon.org. 24 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170825075312/http://www.arvon.org/course/starting-write-play-2/. 25 August 2017. dead.
- Web site: Amy Rosenthal. https://web.archive.org/web/20070304070315/http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsR/rosenthal-amy.html. dead. 4 March 2007. Doollee.com. 24 August 2017.
- Web site: Hampstead announces new play is On The Rocks. Officiallondontheatre.co.uk. 24 August 2017.
- Everyman programme of events Jan–Aug 2016