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Hannah Khalil was the 2022 Resident Writer at Shakespeare’s Globe and her work there includes Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights, Henry VIII and The Fir Tree (2021 and 2022). Hannah’s other stage plays include A Museum in Baghdad (Royal Shakespeare Company) which marked the first play by a woman of Arab heritage on a main stage at the RSC, The Censor Or How to Put on A Political Play without Getting Arrested (Central School of Speech and Drama, London), Interference (National Theatre of Scotland) and the critically acclaimed Scenes from 68* Years - shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award (Arcola Theatre, London, 2016). Scenes has also been mounted in San Francisco, New York, France and in Tunisia in a British Council supported production called Trouf. Further work includes The Scar Test (Soho Theatre, London) and Plan D (Tristan Bates Theatre, Meyer Whitworth Award nominee).
Hannah’s radio plays, include The Unwelcome, Last of the Pearl Fishers and The Deportation Room, all for BBC Radio 4. TV work includes multiple episodes of the Channel 4 drama Hollyoaks. Hannah held the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2021 and was a Creative Fellow of the Samuel Beckett Archive for 2021/2022. In 2022 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Beyond The Canon’s The Writer’s Room Season 1 Episode 7 Feat Hannah Khalil and Yolanda Mercy.
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Chris is a dramaturg and director specialising in international collaborations, Shakespeare, new plays, and projects with young people. He is a Fellow of Birkbeck University Centre for Contemporary Theatre and an Associate Learning Practitioner for The Royal Shakespeare Company, for whom he leads projects and performances involving teachers, young people and artists across the UK and in countries including China, South Korea, India and America.
For 10 years he co-led Soho Theatre’s Writer’s Lab, developing plays by the UK's best-emerging playwrights, and works regularly as a dramaturg and director for Synergy Theatre Project. His productions of new work in the UK include The Lighthouse Keeper's Son, Beckett Archive, Reading University; Nothing in a Butterfly, SynergyTheatre/Omnibus; bottled, Vaults Festival; Gutted, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury and UK tour; Plan D, Tristan Bates Theatre, London, The Water When it Burns, Hampstead Theatre; Scenes from 68* Years, Arcola; I Burn, I Pine, I Perish, Belgrade, Coventry; Trouble and Wonder, RSC. International productions include The Truth, La Virgule, Lille; Fewer Emergencies, Teatro Litta, Milan; Trouf, L'Artisto, Tunis and Nabeul Cultural Centre; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, National Centre for Performing Arts, Beijing, and tour of China.
Audio Interview with Hannah Khalil by Chris White
Audio Interview with Hannah Khalil by Chris White Part One
Audio Interview with Hannah Khalil by Chris White Part Two
