Royal Court Playwright’s Podcast

S7 Ep2: Sabrina Ali talks to Susan Wokoma

Released 11 March 2024: Sabrina Ali is a British Somali writer and actor, who is driven by a passion for sharing authentic and representative stories. Sabrina’s most recent play, Dugsi Dayz, played at Edinburgh Fringe 2023, returned to the New Diorama last year and will play in the Royal Court’s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs this Spring.
 

S7 Ep1: Dirty Hare talk to Susan Wokoma

Released 11 March 2024: Dirty Hare are an award-winning theatre company, made up of director and facilitator Rachel Lemon, historian, musician and writer Lydia Higman and actor and writer Julia Grogan. Dirty Hare’s award-winning production of Gunter transfers to the Royal Court theatre upstairs following its sold-out premiere at Summerhall at the Edinburgh Fringe last year.
 

S6 Ep4: Caro Black Tam talks to Omar Elerian

Released 9 Aug 2022: Caro is a Bachelor of Psychology with experience in social research in public policies. As a playwright, their plays include "Asfixia" and "Tomás". They have been a resident at the Royal Court's International Playwrights' Programme and have taken part in their Long-Form Writing Group.

S6 Ep3: Nazareth Hassan talks to Omar Elerian

Released 2 Aug 2022: Nazareth Hassan is an interdisciplinary artist working in writing, performance, music, sound, video & photography based in Brooklyn, New York.

S6 Ep 2: Pablo Manzi talks to Omar Elerian

Released 26 July 2022: Pablo Manzi has developed most of his work as a playwright with the Chile-based collective BONOBO. His texts have been presented in festivals in Japan, Italy, The Netherlands, Peru, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Belgium, the USA, Sweden and Chile. He was invited by the Royal Court theatre and the British Council to do a residency in London where he wrote ‘A Fight Against…’/‘Una Lucha Contra…’
 

S6 Ep1: Amir Gudarzi talks to Omar Elerian

Released 18 July 2022: Amir Gudarzi is a writer born in Tehran, Iran, in 1986. Due to censorship his plays were only shown in private circles. And since 2009, Amir has lived in involuntary exile in Vienna, Austria.
 

S5 Ep5: Ta-Nia (aka Talia Paulette Oliveras & Nia Farrell) talk to Simon Stephens

Released 18 May 2021: The theatre making duo made up of director Talia Paulette Oliveras and writer Nia Farrell, collectively known as TaNia, met while studying experimental and collaborative theatre making at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. The power of their theoretical rigour and the incision of their thought as a means of critiquing power was maybe developed at NYU, but there is no arid or academic crust to the work that TaNia first developed there: the visceral, playful, humane, angry, Afrofuturist theatre event Dreams in Blk Major.
 
 

S5 Ep 4: Sam Max talks to Simon Stephens

Released 18 May 2021: Sam Max is in the early years of their working life but judging from the level of interest their work has provoked and from the depth and clarity of imagination that defines COOP, they are one of those writers whose work over the coming decade has the potential to allow us to reimagine ourselves as we come out of the pandemic.
 
 

S5 Ep 2: Laurence Dauphinais talks to Simon Stephens

Released 18 May 2021: Quebecoise musician, artist, director, actor and writer Laurence Dauphinais has a body of work that is defined by its diversity. Her beautiful piece of documentary drama Aalaapi, which has been chosen for the 2020/21 Stückemarkt, was her debut as solo director. It premiered at the Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui (CTDA) in Montréal where it won the 2020 Playwright’s Prize.

S5 Ep1: Jude Christian talks to Simon Stephens

Released 18 May 2021: Over the course of the last decade Jude Christian has established herself as one of the most exciting directors, dramaturgs, and theatre makers in British theatre. She has written, developed and performed a quite shattering and unique piece of theatre. Nanjing dramatizes her own exploration of her own history.