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Ursula Rani Sarma is an Irish playwright and screenwriter.

Ursula Rani Sarma
Alma mater	University College Cork
Occupation	Playwright screenwriter

Life

Sarma grew up in County Clare, Ireland.[1] Her father is of Indian descent, while her mother is Irish.[2] She attended University College Cork for her undergraduate degree.[1] She is now based in London.[1]

Career

She began directing and writing plays while a student at University College Cork.[1] Sarma has contributed episodes to the television series RAW,[3] and has been a writer in residence at Paines Plough.[2]

Works

• Like Sugar on Skin (1999)[4]
• Touched (1999)[4]
• Blue (2000)[4]
• Wanderings (2000)[4]
• Gift (2001)[4]
• The Magic Tree (2008)[4]
• The Dark Things (2009). Selected as Best New Play and Best Production at the 2010 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland.[5]
• A version of Lorca's Yerma (2011)[4]
• Evening Train (2019). A musical, based on the album of the same name by Mick Flannery.[1]
• A Thousand Splendid Suns. A play, based on the book by Khalid Hosseini.[6]

Notes

Further reading

• Bracken, Claire (12 February 2016). Irish Feminist Futures. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315697932. ISBN 978-1-315-69793-2.

External links

• Ursula Rani Sarma on Twitter

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