Amelia Rosenthal (born 1974)^[1] is a Britishplaywright fromMuswell Hill,London. She is a recipient ofThe Sunday Times Drama Award.

Rosenthal was born in 1974, the daughter of dramatistJack Rosenthal and actressMaureen Lipman.^[2] She is Jewish.^[3]

Rosenthal studied to be a playwright at theUniversity of Birmingham,^[2] where she took a Masters in Playwriting.^[4]

She wonThe Sunday Times Drama Award with her debut playHenna Night in 1999. In 2015, she wrote the libretto to the operaEntanglement by the composerCharlotte Bray.^[5][6][7] Rosenthal was shortlisted for theSusan Smith Blackburn Prize for female dramatists.^[8] Rosenthal teaches playwriting on theArvon courses, and atBirkbeck College, University of London.^[9]

Her plays include:^[10]

• Sitting Pretty (1998)
• Henna Night (1999) (winner of theSunday Times Drama Award 1999)^[11]
• Jerusalem Syndrome (2000)
• Little Words (radio play)
• Jack Rosenthal's Last Act (4-part series adapted from book for BBC Radio 4)
• Thank God It's Friday (co-written with Cosh Omar 2007)
• On The Rocks (2008) (aboutD. H. Lawrence and his circle, shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2009)
• The Jitterbug Blitz (2009)
• The Workroom (adapted fromL'Atelier byJean-Claude Grumberg)
• Fear of Cherry Blossom (premiere at Cheltenham Everyman Studio Theatre, 2016)^[12]

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• Alumni of the University of Birmingham
• Jewish English writers
• English women dramatists and playwrights
• People from Muswell Hill

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