Hannah Khalil

Playwright and screenwriter Hannah Khalil was the 2022 Resident Writer at Shakespeare's Globe and her work there includes Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights, Henry VIII and The Fir Tree (2021 and 2022). Hannah's other stage plays include A Museum in Baghdad (Royal Shakespeare Company) which marked the first play by a woman of Arab heritage on a main stage at the RSC, Interference (National Theatre of Scotland) and the critically acclaimed Scenes from 68* Years - shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award (Arcola Theatre, London, 2016). Hannah has written radio plays for BBC Radio 4 and TV work includes multiple episodes of the Channel 4 drama Hollyoaks. Her first short film The Record took the Tommy Vine screenplay award and premiered at the Palestinian Film Festival in London in November 2019 and was subsequently screened at Louth International film Fest (directed by Chris White), while her film Suited (directed by Caroline Byrne) was screened at Kerry International Film Festival, London Irish Film Festival and Zebra Film Fest Berlin. She held the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University and the Samuel Beckett Creative Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.