In episode 8 we talk to Naylah Ahmed, writer for theatre, radio and television, about her plays Mustafa and Ready or Not.
Naylah Ahmad is a writer based in Birmingham, who has written for theatre, radio, and television. Before her playwriting and screenwriting career she was an established radio drama producer with immense experience of the development of writers, ideas and story. Naylah began her career as a development producer and script editor for Silver Street an award winning BBC radio drama, she currently writes for The Archers.
Her 2012 play Mustafa, is about a man jailed for the manslaughter of a teenage boy during an exorcism, it garnered four Offie Award Nominations. Her critically acclaimed 2017 play Ready or Not is a political thriller set in a small suburban house where a middle-aged Englishman, Pat, meets a young Muslim man, Yusuf.
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