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Naylah Ahmed

NAYLAH AHMED

  
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Micheline Steinberg Associates  

Naylah Ahmed was born and lives in Birmingham and has been writing since the late 1990s. She started working on poetry and short prose (including the publication of two short stories by Tindal Street Press) and went on to develop her writing in radio and other mediA. She has had a few plays produced for BBC Radio 4, and has also worked as a radio Drama producer for nearly 10 years at the BBC. During her time with the BBC she was Development Producer for Radio Drama, and then went on to be founding Script editor of Silver Street, the first British Asian soap which ran from 2004-2010. Naylah has also written for television (including BBC Scotland's prime time show River City) and for Theatre, winning the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition with her play Butcher Boys in 2007. She was also one of the writers on these Four Streets, a multi-writer play produced at Birmingham Repertory Theatre 2008. Naylah is currently working on her first short film and feature length screenplay.

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below is a list of Naylah Ahmed's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Butcher Boys         Jack In The Box         Mustafa         these Four Streets         Uncle Mustafa's Djinn

Butcher Boys

Synopsis:
set in a Halal butchers in a predominantly Asian inner-city area

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joint winner of the Royal Exchange Theatre's Bruntwood Playwriting Competition 2008

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Jack In The Box

Synopsis:
Bombings, shootings, beheadings, planes going down; newspaper articles, blogs, tweets, 24 hour news& All she wants is silence. Then Yusuf turns up at her door uninvited. Pat hasnt been out since the news, and now, of course, she cant go out - can she? Shes done something that cant be undone. Theyre in this together&.

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part of Talkback Festival of new plays. nspiring and training South Asian women to write new plays for performance is at the core of what Kali does.

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Kali Theatre Company

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Mustafa

Mustafa
Mustafa is in prison serving 14 years for the death of a teenage boy during an attempted exorcism. Racked with guilt at the loss of an innocent life and isolated in a world where his beliefs are constantly challenged, he tries to keep his head down to avoid drawing attention to himself. But soon, the prisoners who have been taunting him suffer unexplained injuries and the prison officers start behaving strangely. Mustafa believes that something, out of his control, is making his sentence intolerable, whilst others are sceptical of his odd behaviour. Is Mustafa the innocent, spiritual man he claims to be, or is a djinn, the evil spirit that he tried to banish from the boy's body, inside the prison looking for its next victim? a compelling and vivid ghost story Mustafa, will have audiences on the edge of their seats.

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an off site production by Birmingham Rep

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thriller

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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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these Four Streets

Synopsis:
In October 2005 the rumour of a rape sparked disturbances in Lozells, Birmingham, that led to the killing of one man, widespread damage and a fracture between two communities that had previously appeared to be living happily alongside one another. Inspired by the views, hopes and fears of local people connected to or affected by the disturbances, these Four Streets is an engaging and hopeful play that highlights a community's fight to stay together. a collaboration between six young female writers, these Four Streets explores the power of rumour and what it's like to live in a place that has been written off.

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written by Naylah Ahmed, Sonali Bhattacharyya, Jennifer Farmer, Lorna French, Amber Lone And Cheryl Akila Payne

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Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company

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Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXIX (2009) Page 0195

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Uncle Mustafa's Djinn

Synopsis:
Does weird Uncle Mustafa really have access to the spirit world or is his nephew Kamran just going mad?

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