Rabiah Hussain

Rabiah Hussain is a playwright, poet and screenwriter from London. Spun is Rabiah’s debut full-length play, with runs in London, Montreal and Toronto. Spun was a finalist in the Best Stage Production category of the Asian Media Awards 2018. In 2019, Rabiah was a writer for the Royal Court Theatre and Kudos TV Fellowship. In 2018, she was part of the BBC Drama Room scheme. Her monologue Where I Live And What I Live Forhad a run at Theatre Absolute in 2017, and her work has been part ofprogrammes with Battersea Arts Centre, The Bunker Theatre, RADA, Rich Mix, The Space Arts Centre and Tamasha Theatre. Rabiah has completed writing programmes with Criterion Theatre, Hachette Publishing, Royal Court and Kali Theatre. She is an alumnus of the 2016 Tamasha Playwrights programme with Tamasha Theatre.Rabiah has contributed published work to Happy Birthday to Me: A collection of contemporary Asian writing(Dahlia Publishing, 2010); Hear Me Now: Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour(Oberon,2018); Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen(The Westbourne Press, 2019) and My White Best Friend And Other Letters Left Unsaid (Oberon, 2020).