Metamorphoses

Sami Ibrahim is a young writer from London. His show Iron Dome Fog Dome was performed at The Yard during the latest First Drafts season. He has worked at the Almeida Theatre as a member of their Creative Board, developing and producing From the Ground Up, a piece of immersive theatre which went up to Edinburgh last summer. At the same time, he wrote and directed Force of Trump, a satire about Donald Trump becoming president. The show had runs at several theatres across London, including the Brockley Jack, where his short play, Carnivore, was also performed as part of the Write Now 7 Festival. He has taken part in The North Wall’s Summer Residency Programme and is currently a member of Soho Theatre’s Writers’ Alumni Group.

Sabrina Mahfouz has recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is the recipient of the 2018 King's Alumni Arts & Culture Award. She has won a Sky Arts Academy Award for Poetry, a Westminster Prize for New Playwrights and a Fringe First Award for her play Chef. Her play With a Little Bit of Luck won the 2019 Best Drama Production at the BBC Radio & Music Awards. She also writes for children and her play Zeraffa Giraffa won a 2018 Off West End Award.

Sabrina is the editor of The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write, a 2017 Guardian Book of the Year and the forthcoming Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen. She's an essay contributor to the multi-award-winning The Good Immigrant and is currently writing a biopic of the rapper and producer Wiley, for Pulse Films.