Diane Samuels is a playwright whose work has been widely produced.
Her play Kindertransport won the Verity Bargate and Meyer-Whitworth
Awards, and was first produced by the Soho Theatre Company in 1993.
Subsequently it has been translated into many languages, performed
in the West End, Off-Broadway and all over the world, and revived
numerous times.
Other plays include: The True-Life Fiction of Mata Hari (Watford
Palace Theatre, 2002); Cinderella's Daughter (Trestle Theatre tour,
2005); 3 Sisters on Hope Street with Tracy-Ann Oberman (co-produced
by Liverpool Everyman/Playhouse and Hampstead Theatres, 2008) and
Poppy + George (Watford Palace Theatre, 2016).
Her plays for younger audiences include One Hundred Million
Footsteps for Quicksilver Theatre Company and Chalk Circle,
Frankie's Monster and How to Beat a Giant at the Unicorn
Theatre.
Her musical, The A-Z of Mrs P, with music and lyrics by Gwyneth
Herbert, had its world premiere at Southwark Playhouse in 2014.
For BBC radio, plays include Swine, Doctor Y, Watch Out for Mister
Stork, Hen Party, Tiger Wings and Psyche.
She also works as a teacher/facilitator of creative writing to all
ages.
'The best play about the pain and passion of mother/daughter relationships...' Guardian 'A powerful contribution to Holocaust literature...' New Yorker
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