Amy Rosenthal


Amy Rosenthal is a British playwright from Muswell Hill, London. She is a recipient of The Sunday Times Drama Award.

Biography

Amy Rosenthal was born in 1974, the daughter of dramatist Jack Rosenthal and actress Maureen Lipman. She is Jewish.
Rosenthal studied to be a playwright at the University of Birmingham, where she took a Masters in Playwriting.
She won The Sunday Times Drama Award with her debut play Henna Night in 1999. In 2015, she wrote the libretto to the opera Entanglement by the composer Charlotte Bray. Rosenthal was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for female dramatists. Rosenthal teaches playwriting on the Arvon courses, and at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Plays

Her plays include: