Hannah Khalil

Hannah Khalil is Writer in Residence at Bristol Old Vic (2025-2050). Recent work includes critically acclaimed My English Persian Kitchen which had a sell out run at the Traverse as part of the Edinburgh Festival in August 2024, then transferred to Soho Theatre, London. It returns to London in Autumn 2025 followed by a UK and Irish tour. Hannah was the 2022 Resident Writer at Shakespeare’s Globe, while there the Globe produced three of her plays: Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights, Henry VIII and The Fir Tree (2021 and 2022). Hannah’s other stage plays include A Museum in Baghdad (Royal Shakespeare Company) which marked the first play by a woman of Arab heritage on a main stage at the RSC,  Interference (National Theatre of Scotland) and the critically acclaimed Scenes from 68* Years – shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award (Arcola Theatre, London, 2016). Her first libretto for a new Key Stage 2 Opera called The Great Stink toured the UK in 2024 with English Touring Opera.
Hannah held the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2021 and was a Creative Fellow of the Samuel Beckett Archive for 2021/2022. She co-conceived and acted as co-artistic director for the Not Beckett international festival of new plays. She is currently an Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck University. In 2022 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is an Associate Artist of Shakespeare’s Globe.