Amy Rosenthal

For the American author, see Amy Krouse Rosenthal.

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]