Ursula Rani Sarma
Irish playwright and screenwriter
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Ursula Rani Sarma is an Irish playwright and screenwriter.
AlmamaterUniversity College Cork
Occupations
Ursula Rani Sarma | |
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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]