I'm an Iraqi Jewish playwright living in London. I am also writing a book on my literary heroines for Chatto & Windus. I blog at http://samanthaellisblog.blogspot.com/

Plays include: Cling To Me Like Ivy (Birmingham Rep and on tour), Noura (tour for Agent 160), The Thousand and Second Night (LAMDA), Patching Havoc (Theatre 503), A Sudden Visitation of Calamity (Menagerie Theatre), Startle Response (Young Vic workshop), and Sugar and Snow (Hampstead Theatre and BBC Radio 4, winner of a Stages of Sound award), and, for the Miniaturists, Scattering, Unfinished, Postfeminism and Cat in a Sieve. Journalism includes: Guardian, TLS, Observer, Telegraph, Jewish Quarterly, Jewish Chronicle, Prospect, BBC.

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