Hassan Abdulrazzak
Hassan Abdulrazzak’s plays include Baghdad Wedding (Soho Theatre, 2007, Belvoir St Theatre, 2009, Akvarious productions 2010), The Prophet (Gate theatre, 2012), Love, Bombs and Apples (Arcola Theatre, 2016 and UK tour. Golden Thread Productions, San Francisco, 2018, Kennedy Centre, Washington DC 2019) and And Here I Am (Arcola Theatre, 2017 and UK and Middle East and Europe tour). He is currently commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Synergy Theatre. His play translations include Chronicles of a City We Never Knew and The Confession by Wael Qadour, Jogging by Hanane Hajjali, Mrs Ghada’s Pain Threshold by Abdullah Alkafri. Baghdad Bathhouse by Jawad Alassadi, Voluntary Work by Laila Soliman and 603 by Imad Farajin. The translations were commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre, the Lark Theatre and Heinrich Böll Stiftung amongst others. He has contributed to several anthologies including Iraq+100 (Comma Press, 2016) and Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic (Saqi books, 2017). He is the recipient of George Devine, Meyer-Whitworth, Pearson theatre awards as well as the Arab British Centre Award for Culture. Love, Bombs and Apples won the Bay Area theatre award for outstanding production in 2018.