Shelley Silas

Shelley Silas is a British playwright born in Calcutta, India.

Career

In 2002, she won a Pearson award and was writer-in-residence at London's Bush Theatre. Her stage plays are published by Oberon.

Her work for BBC Radio Four includes The Sound of Silence (short-listed for the 2003 Imison Award,^[1] creating and co-writing The Magpie Stories;,^[2] adapting Hanan al-Shaykh's novel Only in London and co-adapting Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet (with John Harvey).

She has also compiled and edited an anthology of short stories, 12 Days, published by Virago Press.

Stage plays

• Shrapnel (1999)
• Falling (2002)
• Calcutta Kosher (2004)
• Mercy Fine (2005)
• Eating Ice Cream on Gaza Beach (2008)

Radio plays

• The Sound of Silence (2002)
• The Magpie Stories (2002)
• Collective Fascination (2005)
• Ink (2005)
• Nothing Happened (2005, co-written with Luke Sorba)
• Molly's Story (2007)
• I Am Emma Humphreys (2009)

Current radio commissions (2010)

• The People Next Door
• Mr Jones Goes Driving

Radio adaptations

• Calcutta Kosher (2002)
• Only in London (2005)
• The Raj Quartet (2005)

TV

• The Barkers Treatment commission, Monkey Kingdom

References

1. "list of 2003 Imison Award finalists".
2. "Magpie Stories transmission listings".

External links

• List of Shelley's plays on Doollee
• Participant in Pride London Festival Fortnight 2009. Event: Pride Spotlights at Drill Hall Chenies Street on 1 July
• Radio plays listed on Diversity Website
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/14/gender.uk