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Silva Semerciyan

SILVA SEMERCIYAN

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  

Silva Semerciyan is an American playwright permanently settled in the UK. She won the William Saroyan Prize for Playwriting for her first full-length play, Another Mans Son, which was subsequently developed under commission to the National Theatre. Her other plays include The Light Burns Blue (Tonic Theatre, 2015), I and the Village (Theatre503, 2015), The Window (Bristol Old Vic, 2014), The Tinderbox (Bristol Old Vic, 2014), Gather Ye Rosebuds (Theatre503, 2013) and Flashes (Young Vic, 2012). Her work has also been presented in readings and short-run productions by the National Theatre Studio, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Nightingale Theatre, Adrienne Theatre, LA Theatre Company and Golden Thread Productions. I and the Village was shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize in 2011, and Gather Ye Rosebuds won Best New Play at the Brighton Fringe Festival in 2013. Her radio play Varanasi was shortlisted for a BBC Audio Drama Award. She has been a BBC Fellow at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre, a member of the Royal Courts Studio Writers Group, and a writer on attachment at the National Theatre Studio. She holds an MPhil (B) in Playwriting from the University of Birmingham.

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         Another Man's Son         I And the Village         Light Burns Blue, The         Mother Goose

Another Man's Son

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Lucine has five younger sisters, a mother who refuses to leave her room and a tyrant of a father. then she becomes pregnant out of wedlock. It is 1958 in Beirut

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I And the Village

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Summer in small town America. Aimee Stright wants to be Banksy in a town that hates vandals. As outsiders investigate what happened on the day she walked into a church with a gun, it seems Aimee is one against the world and the world wants to know why. I and The Village is a coming of age story that asks pointed questions about conformity, dissent and America's devotion to guns.

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shortlist for Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2011

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Light Burns Blue, The

Light Burns Blue, The
During the First World War, seventeen-year-old Elsie Wright fools the world into believing she has photographed fairies in her garden. An ambitious young reporter seeks to expose Elsie as a fraud. But as she looks at the facts, she begins to think there's more to Elsie's story than a simple hoax.

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This Changes Everything by Joel Horwood is part of Platform, a new initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books. Aimed at addressing gender imbalance and inequality in theatre, Platform comprises big-cast plays with predominantly or all-female casts, written specifically for performance by school, college and youth-theatre groups.

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TYA

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Mother Goose

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Five people and their experiences with rape from date rape to statutory rape

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Bristol Old Vic    12 Oct 2013

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