Shelley Silas

Shelley Silas is a British playwright born in Calcutta, India.

Contents 1 Career 2 Stage Plays 3 Radio Plays 4 Radio Adaptations 5 TV 6 References 7 Representation 8 External links

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], creating and co-writing The Magpie Stories;^[2], adapting Hanan al-Shaykh's novel Only in London and co-adapting 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.

Stage Plays

• Shrapnel (1999)
• Falling (2002)
• Calcutta Kosher (2004)
• Mercy Fine (2005)
• Eating Ice Cream on Gaza Beach (2008)

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)
• I Am Emma Humphreys (2009)

Current Radio Commissions (2010)

• The People Next Door
• Mr Jones Goes Driving

Radio Adaptations

• Calcutta Kosher (2002)
• Only in London (2005)
• The Raj Quartet (2005)

TV

• The Barkers Treatment commission, Monkey Kingdom

References

Representation

Shelley Silas is represented by Katie Haines at The Agency for scripts, and Veronique Baxter at David Higham for books.

http://shelleysilas.wordpress.com/about/

External links

• List of Shelley's plays on Doollee
• Participant in Pride London Festival Fortnight 2009. Event: Pride Spotlights at Drill Hall Chenies Street on July 1st
• Radio plays listed on Diversity Website
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/14/gender.uk

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