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Sarah
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Grochala
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Playwright/Dramaturg
Biography
I am an Anglo-Polish playwright based in London. My play S-27 won the 2007 iceandfire/Amnesty International Protect the Human Playwriting Competition and was also shortlisted for the King’s Cross Award and the Leah Ryan Award for Emerging Women Writers. S-27 premiered at the Finborough Theatre, London in June 2009. Since its first production in 2009, S-27 has been revived nationally (Wardrobe Theatre Bristol, 2014) and internationally, including productions in Australia (Griffin Theatre Sydney, 2010; Two Tall Theatre Newcastle, 2016; Feet First Collective Freemantle, 2019) and Canada (Intersection Theatre Toronto, 2012). S-27 is published by Oberon books and has been translated into Hebrew.
My other plays include Waiting for Romeo (Romeo’yu Beklerken), which ran in rep at Tiyatro Yan Etki, Istanbul from 2014 to 2016, winning the 2015 Ekin Yazin Dostları Theatre Award for Best Play (Small Venue). In 2011, I won OffWestEnd.com’s Adopt a Playwright Award for my play Smolensk. My most recent play Star Fish was shortlisted for the 2016 Nick Darke Award and BBC Script Room 10. My work as a writer has been supported and developed by National Theatre Studio, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Orange Tree, Criterion New Writing Programme, Arts Council England, The Peggy Ramsay Foundation, The Orchard Project (USA), The Studios Key West (USA) and OffWestEnd.com. Between 2012 and 2016, I was an Associate Artist with the theatre company Headlong, where I worked on creating theatrical experiences using digital media. Alongside my playwriting, I currently write Dr Who audio dramas for Big Finish productions.
I am currently Senior Lecturer, Writing for Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where I lead the MA/MFA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media. My book on playwriting, The Contemporary Political Play, was published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama in 2017 and was shortlisted for the TaPRA Early Career Research Prize. I am currently writing a book on The Theatre of Rupert Goold (Methuen Drama), which will be published in 2020. I was recently awarded a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award for a project exploring the lack of contemporary European plays in translation on British Stages. My research work has also been nominated for the Philip Leverhulme Prize. As A dramaturg I have worked for Soho Theatre and the Brighton Festival. I am currently a senior reader for Theatre 503.
My other plays include Waiting for Romeo (Romeo’yu Beklerken), which ran in rep at Tiyatro Yan Etki, Istanbul from 2014 to 2016, winning the 2015 Ekin Yazin Dostları Theatre Award for Best Play (Small Venue). In 2011, I won OffWestEnd.com’s Adopt a Playwright Award for my play Smolensk. My most recent play Star Fish was shortlisted for the 2016 Nick Darke Award and BBC Script Room 10. My work as a writer has been supported and developed by National Theatre Studio, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Orange Tree, Criterion New Writing Programme, Arts Council England, The Peggy Ramsay Foundation, The Orchard Project (USA), The Studios Key West (USA) and OffWestEnd.com. Between 2012 and 2016, I was an Associate Artist with the theatre company Headlong, where I worked on creating theatrical experiences using digital media. Alongside my playwriting, I currently write Dr Who audio dramas for Big Finish productions.
I am currently Senior Lecturer, Writing for Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where I lead the MA/MFA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media. My book on playwriting, The Contemporary Political Play, was published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama in 2017 and was shortlisted for the TaPRA Early Career Research Prize. I am currently writing a book on The Theatre of Rupert Goold (Methuen Drama), which will be published in 2020. I was recently awarded a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award for a project exploring the lack of contemporary European plays in translation on British Stages. My research work has also been nominated for the Philip Leverhulme Prize. As A dramaturg I have worked for Soho Theatre and the Brighton Festival. I am currently a senior reader for Theatre 503.
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