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Sabrina Mahfouz

SABRINA MAHFOUZ

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  

Sabrina Mahfouz is a British Egyptian poet and playwright. She is currently an Associate Artist at the Bush Theatre, a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum and the recipient of a 2013 Sky Arts Futures Fund Award for her poetry work. Her first short play That Boy won a Westminster Prize for New Playwrights at Soho Theatre in 2010. Her debut solo show, Dry Ice, received a nomination at The Stage Awards for Best Solo Show in 2011. In 2012, her play One Hour Only won an Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Award. The Traverse Theatre presented her latest play Clean at Edinburgh Festival 2013. She is currently launching a poetry production company Pop Poetry and writing for film, TV and theatre.

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below is a list of Sabrina Mahfouz's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Chef         Clean         Crystal Kisses         Dry Ice         End Of the Line         Looking at Michelangelo         Love I feel Inside Is Red, The         One Hour Only         Shop Selling Speech, A         That Boy         With a Little Bit of Luck

Chef

Chef
A gripping story of how one woman went from a haute cuisine head chef to a convicted inmate running a prison kitchen. Sabrina Mahfouz's distinct, award-winning style and Jade Anouka's mesmerising performance make this an extraordinary new show. Leading us through her world of mouth-watering dishes and heartbreaking memories, Chef questions our attitudes to food, prisoners, violence, love and hope. Directed by Kirsty Patrick Ward and produced by POP, this show was made possible through a Sky Academy Arts Scholarship. A blistering way with language. . .this is how theatre can take you anywhere in your imagination' ***** (Herald on Clean).

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1st Produced:
Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh Fringe Festival     01 Aug 2014

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pop

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Genre:
Spoken word, Poetry, 1 hour

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Clean

Clean
play is a reaction to the gender-bias of computer games. As a result, we meet a contrasting trio of would-be superheroines, Zainab, Chloe and Katya, respectively played by Rosie Wyatt, Nadia Clifford and Chloe Massey. the first is a streetwise card cloner, the second a posh emerald smuggler and the last a Russian sex-supplier turned market manipulator. the lack of trust between the three is obvious when they sit apart in a swanky club but the owner has other ideas. Using blackmail and a little flattery, she brings them together for a Mission Impossible, with the prospect of saving the world some time soon.

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short play

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Crystal Kisses

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Crystal Kisses has been produced in both 2010 and 2011 for Contact (in association with Barnardos, NHS, Brook, PROTECT and others) and has toured schools nationally. It was mentioned in the 2011 Government Action Plan to tackle Child Sexual Exploitation as an example to follow in educating young people about CSE.

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written by Sabrina Mahfouz and Avaes Mohammad

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Contact (in partnership with PROTECT team Brook and NHS Fresh)

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dry Ice

Dry Ice
Meet Nina, a 24-year-old stripper on the edge; her half-art-half-drug dealing boyfriend, and 18 other eccentrically entertaining characters from the world of surreal, sleazy, velvety strip-clubs and gentrified London dinner parties

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part of "encounters

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One act

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End Of the Line

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IdesTap GroupAward2010

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Looking at Michelangelo

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part of Old Vic New Voices TS Eliot Exchange

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The Vineyard Theatre, New York    

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Love I feel Inside Is Red, The

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Mona is pregnant. Her boyfriend has died. His mother is going crazy with grief and Mona has something big to tell her. Exploring the ever-topical and emotive subject of abortion in the 21st century.

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A Play, a Pie and a Pint

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Genre:
short play

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One Hour Only

One Hour Only
AJ and Aggy have one hour together. AJ is all paid up and Aggy is there to give him the best birthday present ever. But what they unwrap is something neither of them expected.

Notes:
Old VicNewVoices Edinburgh Underbelly Award

1st Produced:
Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     02 Aug 2012

Organisations:
Made From Scratch Theatre

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Shop Selling Speech, A

Synopsis:
There's an armed robbery in a newly opened shop in Cairo, Egypt. What is being stolen? Speech. Can the robbers succeed? Can the staff stop them? Should they be stopped? Questions of freedom, power, gender, greed and revolution are examined in this heightened drama.

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Each year the National Theatre invites ten writers to create new plays for young people to perform. This spring 230 youth theatre companies will present the premieres of these plays in Venues from Scotland to Cornwall and Northern Ireland to Norfolk. Each company will also perform at one of 26 Connections festivals in professional theatres across the country, and ten companies will go on to perform at the National Theatre. Connections celebrates great new writing for the stage  and the energy, commitment and talent of young theatre-makers.

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NT Connections

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TYA

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That Boy

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Westminster Prize Performance 2010

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Genre:
10 min play

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With a Little Bit of Luck

Synopsis:
I want to be iconic. I want to be beautiful, reckless, feared, hated, ahead of the times. I want to be different, I want to be dangerous...' London, 2001. Raves. Revision. Re-election. Nadia is swept up in one hot summer's night of love that promises endless possibilities. Drinking, dancing, hope, ambition, lust, greed... and decisions that will determine the rest of her life. Rhythmically underscored by a live mix of old school UK Garage, award-winning writer Sabrina Mahfouz explores the legacy of a cultural movement that defined the hopes of a generation. London, 2015. Re-wind.

Notes:
part of Latitudes Festival

1st Produced:
Henham Park, Southwold     16 Jul 2015

Organisations:
Paines Plough

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Genre:
play with music

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