Shelley Silas
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Shelley Silas is a British playwright born in Calcutta, India.
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[edit] Career
In 2002, she won a Pearson award and was writer-in-residence at London's Bush Theatre. Her stage plays are published by Oberon.
Her work for BBC Radio Four includes The Sound of Silence (short-listed for the 2003 Imison Award[1] and creating & co-writing The Magpie Stories[2]; she also adapted Hanan al-Shaykh's novel Only in London and co-adapted Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet (with John Harvey).
She has also compiled and edited an anthology of short stories, 12 Days, published by Virago Press.
[edit] Stage Plays
- Shrapnel (1999)
- Falling (2002)
- Calcutta Kosher (2004)
- Mercy Fine (2005)
[edit] Radio Plays
- The Sound of Silence (2002)
- The Magpie Stories (2002)
- Collective Fascination (2005)
- Ink (2005)
- Nothing Happened (2005, co-written with Luke Sorba)
- Molly's Story (2007)
[edit] Radio Adaptations
- Calcutta Kosher (2002)
- Only in London (2005)
- The Raj Quartet (2005)
