This anthology includes three ground-breaking UK plays from Black, Asian and Global Majority female writers alongside bespoke blended learning resources written by the authors and leading theatre professionals.
Mojisola Adebayo is a playwright, performer, director, producer, workshop facilitator and lecturer. She has a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts, an MA in Physical Theatre and her PhD is entitled
Afriquia Theatre: Creating Black Queer Ubuntu Through Performance (Goldsmiths, Royal Holloway and Queen Mary, University of London). Mojisola trained extensively with Augusto Boal and is an international specialist in Theatre of the Oppressed, often working in locations of crisis and conflict. She has worked in theatre, radio and television, on four continents, over the past 25 years, performing in over 50 productions, writing, devising and directing over 30 plays, and leading countless workshops, from Antarctica to Zimbabwe. Her own authored plays include
Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey (Lyric Hammersmith and Ovalhouse, London),
Muhammad Ali and Me (Ovalhouse, Albany Theatre, London and UK touring),
48 Minutes for Palestine (Ashtar Theatre and international touring),
Desert Boy (Albany Theatre, London and UK touring),
The Listeners (Pegasus Theatre, Oxford),
I Stand Corrected (Artscape, Ovalhouse, London and international touring) and
The Interrogation of Sandra Bland (Bush Theatre, London).
Hannah Khalil is currently Resident Writer at Shakespeare's Globe.
Henry VIII is part of their 2022 summer season and her critically acclaimed re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen's
The Fir Tree which premiered in 2021, will return for their 2022 winter season. Hannah's other theatre commissions include new work for the RSC, Soho Theatre, The Kiln and Mosaic/Fishamble. Previous work for stage includes
A Museum in Baghdad, which opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan Theatre in 2019 directed by Erica Whyman,
Interference for The National Theatre of Scotland,
The Scar Test for Soho Theatre and
Scenes from 68* Years for the Arcola. Her work is published by Methuen Drama. Hannah has also written numerous radio plays, including The Unwelcome, Last of the Pearl Fishers and The Deportation Room all for BBC Radio 4. Television work includes multiple episodes of the Channel 4 drama Hollyoaks. Her short film, The Record, won the Tommy Vine screenplay award at the Underwire film festival, and went on to be made. It was also selected at London Palestine Film Festival. Hannah was named Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2021 and is a Creative Fellow of the Samuel Beckett Archive for 2021/2022.
Amy Ng is a British-Hong Kong playwright. Her plays include UNDER THE UMBRELLA (Belgrade Theatre Coventry - UK tour), ACCEPTANCE (Hampstead Theatre) and SHANGRI-LA (Finborough Theatre). Radio plays include TIGER GIRLS (BBC Radio 4) and KILBURN PASSION (BBC Radio 3). She is under commission to the Royal Shakespeare Company and ice&fire, and is developing her play THATCHER IN CHINA at the National Theatre Studio. She is also part of the inaugural Genesis Almeida New Playwrights Big Plays programme. Her new adaptation of Strindberg's MISS JULIE will be produced at Chester Storyhouse in February 2020 and for TV she is working on original projects with BBC Studios and Merman.
Amy trained as a historian with a research interest in multinational empires, imperial decline, and nationality conflict, and is the author of 'Nationalism and Political Liberty' (Oxford University Press). She is fluent in English, German and Chinese and regularly translates contemporary Chinese plays into English.
Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway is an award-winning arts leader and former Founding Artistic Director & CEO at Artistic Directors of the Future, Founder/CEO at Beyond The Canon and Co-founder and former Executive Producer at Black Lives, Black Words International Project.
