Penny Black
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Penny Black

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Penny is a playwright and translator (from German). Her love of theatre started in Vienna, where she lived for five years and completed her acting training. Her first original play "Making Babies, An Embryonic Farce" was translated into German and premiered in Heilbronn, Germany; "Sudden Silence" opened at the Arcola Theatre. "Beloved Muse" was a 2018 commission from the Belvedere Museum in Vienna celebrate the Gustav Klimt centenary year and has toured globally. "Alma Who?" about Alma Mahler, continues to tour. Her third play for the same performer entitled "Selfies with a Giantess" premiered in Vienna in May 2023 and starts a world tour in Australia this autumn. Her audio play "Between Two Worlds", based on the book The Gift of Alzheimer’s by Maggie La Tourelle and starring Juliet Stephenson and Jane Lapotaire, has just been released on Audible. Penny has translated plays for the Royal Court, Gate Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Arcola Theatre and the National Theatre amongst many others. Her translation of Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek’s "Sportsplay" toured the UK as part of the Olympic celebrations in 2012.
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