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Rebecca Lenkiewicz (born 1968) is a British playwright, screenwriter and former actress. She is best known as the author of Her Naked Skin (2008), which was the first original play written by a living female playwright to be performed on the Olivier stage of the Royal National Theatre .
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- Rebecca Lenkiewicz
- Nica Burns
- Sonia Friedman
- Rosemary Squire
- Ameena Hamid
Margaret Hughes painting by Sir Peter Lely (Photo credit: Hunter Kahn, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons) It’s shocking to think of now, but there was a time when women appearing on stage was unheard of. Acting was considered a purely male profession until 1660 when a lady called Margaret Hughes came along. At age 15, Margaret became the first wom...
Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Photo credit: Sarah Lee) From the first woman to act on stage to the first woman to have her original work performed on the main stage of the National Theatre. In 2008, Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Her Naked Skin became the first play written by a woman to hit the main stage of the National. Rebecca was originally an actor with the Roya...
Nica Burns is a multi-award winning theatre producer and Chief Executive of Nimax Theatres, one of the most notable names in the West End. She started as an artistic director at the Donmar Warehouse and went on to find Nimax Theatres in 2005 with her business partners, co-owning the Palace, Lyric,Apollo, Garrick, Vaudeville and Duchesstheatres. In ...
Sonia Friedman (Photo Credit: Jason Alden) You might not have heard of Sonia Friedman but you’ve almost definitely seen one of her productions. Sonia has produced two of the most acclaimed plays of the decade, Jerusalem, and one of the most acclaimed musicals, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, winner of an astounding 9 Olivier Awards. Friedman als...
Rosemary Squire (Photo credit: Ambassadorslaurenvia Wikimedia Commons) If you’ve ever been to a West End show, the chances are that you’ve walked into a building owned by Rosemary Squire. She was co-founder and co-owner of the Ambassador Theatre Group (one of the biggest companies of its kind in the world) for 24 years. She was also the second fema...
Ameena Hamid (Photo credit: Danny Kaan) Because it’s International Women’s Day, we want to highlight Ameena Hamid, a pioneering female who we think is a true role model to the future generations. At just 20 years old, Ameena is the youngest ever female producer in the West End as the Associate Producer of Death Drop which opened at the Garrick Thea...
Jan 11, 2016 · Since 2000, Devon born playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz has written numerous plays and adaptations, including plays for the Almeida, Arcola Theatre and the Old Vic. In 2008, Lenkiewicz became the first living female playwright to have a new play put on the Olivier stage at the National.
Nov 18, 2022 · When director Maria Schrader and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz began developing “She Said” as a film, they quickly established a few ground rules.
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Aeschylus's classic trilogy about murder, revenge and justice. Available now. The Furies. 1:25:00. All available episodes (3 total) Who's Who in The Oresteia. Meet the main characters from the...
Jan 12, 2014 · The first of the three plays in Aeschylus's classic trilogy about murder, revenge and justice. Agamemnon returns home to Argos after his victory at Troy.
Dec 16, 2022 · She Said screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz wanted to honour the journalists and survivors at the centre of the Weinstein scandal with an authentic approach to their stories, she tells Screen ...
