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Ursula Rani Sarma

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Ursula Rani Sarma is from Co Clare. Her first plays were produced while she was still at university in Cork. She co-founded Djinn Theatre Company in 1999 and her play Touched was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the same year. Since then, she's been commissioned by the Abbey, the National Theatre in Britain and the Traverse Theatre in Scotland. Her plays include Wanderings, Gift, and the radio plays Car Four, for the BBC, and The Fisherman, for RTE. Her play The Ripple Effect, which involved local community, youth and school groups, was commissioned as part of the London Cultural Olympiad in 2012.

Company Jobs

Job Title Company
Artistic Director Djinn Productions

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Blue Ursula Rani Sarma
Dear Ireland I Michael West Stacey Gregg Shaun Dunne Thomas Kane Byrne Manchán Magan Sinéad Burke Eva O'Connor Dermot Bolger Edna O'Brien Carys D. Coburn Aoife Martyn Meadhbh McHugh Colm Keegan (2) Arthur Riordan Phillip McMahon Andrea Molino John O'Donovan (2) Darach Mac Con Iomaire Deirdre Kinahan Sonya Kelly Zoe Ní Riordáin Margaret Perry Karen Cogan Joseph O'Connor (1) Jimmy Murphy Kit de Waal Carmel Winters Enda Walsh Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Iseult Golden Keith James Walker Sarah Hanly Mark O'Halloran John Connors Una McKevitt Shane O'Reilly Blindboy Boatclub Emmet Kirwan Nancy Harris Owen McCafferty Rosaleen McDonagh Frank McGuinness David Ireland Jody O'Neill Feli Speaks Ursula Rani Sarma Zhu Yi Gina Moxley Pom Boyd Abbie Spallen
Gift Ursula Rani Sarma
The Dark Things Ursula Rani Sarma
The Magic Tree Ursula Rani Sarma
Touched Ursula Rani Sarma
Wanderings Ursula Rani Sarma

Adaptations

Play Title Playwright
Yerma Ursula Rani Sarma Federico García Lorca

Director

Play Title Playwright
Blue Ursula Rani Sarma
Gift Ursula Rani Sarma
The Magic Tree Ursula Rani Sarma
Touched Ursula Rani Sarma
Wanderings Ursula Rani Sarma

Designer

Play Title Playwright
Touched Ursula Rani Sarma
Wanderings Ursula Rani Sarma