Shelley Silas is a British playwright of Sephardi Jewish heritage. She grew up in Golders Green, North London. She is married to Stella Duffy, writer, campaigner, co-director of Fun Palaces.

Career

In 2002, she won a Pearson award and was writer-in-residence at London's Bush Theatre. Her stage plays are published by Oberon. Her work for BBC Radio Four includes The Sound of Silence (short-listed for the 2003 Imison Award, creating and co-writing The Magpie Stories;, adapting Hanan al-Shaykh's novel Only in London and co-adapting Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet (with John Harvey). She has also compiled and edited an anthology of short stories, 12 Days, published by Virago Press.

Stage plays

Radio plays

Radio adaptations

TV