Ursula Rani Sarma

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Ursula Rani Sarma
Alma materUniversity College Cork
Occupations

Ursula Rani Sarma is an Irish playwright and screenwriter.

Biography

Sarma grew up in County Clare, Ireland.[1] Her father is of Indian descent, while her mother is Irish.[2] She attended University College Cork for her undergraduate degree.[1] She is now based in London.[1]

She began directing and writing plays while a student at University College Cork.[1] Sarma has been a writer in residence at Paines Plough.[2] Addiontinally, Sarma has written television, contributing episodes to RAW,[3] Red Rock, Delicious and most recently, the crime drama Smother.

Works

  • Like Sugar on Skin (1999)[4]
  • Touched (1999)[4]
  • Blue (2000)[4]
  • Wanderings (2000)[4]
  • Gift (2001)[4]
  • The Magic Tree (2008)[4]
  • The Dark Things (2009). Selected as Best New Play and Best Production at the 2010 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland.[5]
  • A version of Lorca's Yerma (2011)[4]
  • Evening Train (2019). A musical, based on the album of the same name by Mick Flannery.[1]
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns. A play, based on the book by Khalid Hosseini.[6]
  • The Split Up (TBA).[7]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Crawley, Peter (8 June 2019). "The Mick Flannery album that grew into a musical". The Irish Times.
  2. ^ a b Crawley, Peter (4 October 2003). "Stealing from other worlds". The Irish Times.
  3. ^ "Interview with 'RAW' Executive Producer Suzanne McAuley". Irish Film & Television Network. 6 January 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Ursula Rani Sarma". Playography Ireland. Irish Theatre Institute.
  5. ^ Findlay, Ruth (13 June 2010). "Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland" (Press release). Festival Theatre, Edinburgh.
  6. ^ Brennan, Clare (12 May 2019). "A Thousand Splendid Suns review – ultimately engaging Hosseini adaptation". The Guardian.
  7. ^ "BBC commissions The Split Up, a spin-off from Abi Morgan's hit series The Split". bbc.co.uk/mediacentre. Retrieved 25 February 2024.

Further reading

External links


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