Sabrina Mahfouz
- Writer
- Producer
Sabrina is a playwright, lyricist, poet and screenwriter based between London, LA and Cairo.
For TV she has recently worked as a writer, consultant and/or producer on HBO's limited thriller series, Full Circle; Ramy Youssef and Pam Brady's new animated comedy at A24/Amazon Studios, #1 Happy Family USA; Netflix's The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. She has her own shows in development with Miramax, A24 and Amazon Studios. In theatre, she is the writer on Danny Boyle and Boy Blue's dance adaptation of The Matrix, premiering at The Factory in Manchester, October 2023. She was an inaugural Writer in Residence at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 2021, where she co-wrote a critically acclaimed adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. She wrote and performed her cross-genre show A History of Water in the Middle East at the Royal Court Theatre, where she was also a co-writer and lyricist on The Song Project and Living Newspaper. Her play Chef, about an inmate of a woman's prison who is also a haute cuisine chef, won a Fringe First. Her first play, Dry Ice, was based on her time working in strip clubs and was directed by David Schwimmer, for which she was nominated for Best Solo Performance in The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence. Her numerous other plays have been garnered a Herald Angel Award, Old Vic New Voices Award, BBC Best Drama Award, Radio Academy Award, UK Theatre Award and an Offie Award. Sabrina is developing new plays for Audible, Sonia Friedman Productions and The Donmar.
Sabrina has written a part-memoir, part-history book, These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire and the Middle East; is the editor of The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write; Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen; Poems for a Green and Blue Planet and Sabrina Mahfouz, Plays: 1 and is an essay contributor to the multi-award-winning The Good Immigrant. She won the King's Arts & Culture Alumni Award for inspiring change in the creative industries and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature.
For TV she has recently worked as a writer, consultant and/or producer on HBO's limited thriller series, Full Circle; Ramy Youssef and Pam Brady's new animated comedy at A24/Amazon Studios, #1 Happy Family USA; Netflix's The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. She has her own shows in development with Miramax, A24 and Amazon Studios. In theatre, she is the writer on Danny Boyle and Boy Blue's dance adaptation of The Matrix, premiering at The Factory in Manchester, October 2023. She was an inaugural Writer in Residence at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 2021, where she co-wrote a critically acclaimed adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. She wrote and performed her cross-genre show A History of Water in the Middle East at the Royal Court Theatre, where she was also a co-writer and lyricist on The Song Project and Living Newspaper. Her play Chef, about an inmate of a woman's prison who is also a haute cuisine chef, won a Fringe First. Her first play, Dry Ice, was based on her time working in strip clubs and was directed by David Schwimmer, for which she was nominated for Best Solo Performance in The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence. Her numerous other plays have been garnered a Herald Angel Award, Old Vic New Voices Award, BBC Best Drama Award, Radio Academy Award, UK Theatre Award and an Offie Award. Sabrina is developing new plays for Audible, Sonia Friedman Productions and The Donmar.
Sabrina has written a part-memoir, part-history book, These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire and the Middle East; is the editor of The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write; Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen; Poems for a Green and Blue Planet and Sabrina Mahfouz, Plays: 1 and is an essay contributor to the multi-award-winning The Good Immigrant. She won the King's Arts & Culture Alumni Award for inspiring change in the creative industries and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature.