Polly Stenham
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Polly Stenham (born 16 July 1986) is an English playwright best known for her play That Face, which she wrote when she was 19 years old.
Private life
Stenham lives in London.
She is a fan of Radiohead's In Rainbows, which she claims she listened to often while writing Tusk Tusk.
Career
In April 2007, Stenham's debut play That Face appeared at the Royal Court Theatre in London. It was directed by Jeremy Herrin and starred Lindsay Duncan as the alcoholic mother Martha and Matt Smith as her son Henry. Stenham received the 2007 Theatrical Management Association Award for Best New Play in the Evening Standard's 2007 Charles Wintour Award, the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, and the 2007 Theatrical Management Association Award for Best New Play.
Any reviewers lauded the play, with Charles Spencer of The Daily Telegraph congratulating the result:
During the 2007 Latitude Festival, Stenham appeared at the Royal Court before That Face moved to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 2008 with largely the same cast and again under Jeremy Herrin's direction.
Tusk Tusk premiered in the downstairs theatre at the Royal Court in March 2009, directed by Jeremy Herrin.
In 2011, Stenham and her partner Victoria Williams opened the Cob Studios and Gallery (named after her art collector father) in Camden, London.
No Quarter, directed by Jeremy Herrin and starring Tom Sturridge, was staged at the Royal Court in 2013.
Nicolas Winding Refn said I Walk With the Dead as his next project, and that Polly Stenham was selected to write the screenplay with Refn. According to them, the film would have an all female cast. Refn confessed that he persuaded Stenham to write the screenplay in response to his own inability to write female characters. The Neon Demon project was later renamed and released in June 2016 to mixed reviews.
Maria Aberg, director of Temporary Theatre, directed by Maria Aberg, produced Hotel Hotel in 2014.
Julie, her interpretation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, was staged at Lyttleton Theatre, directed by Carrie Cracknell and starring Vanessa Kirby and Eric Kofi AbdefaIn.
Polly's portrait by Walter & Zoniel in 2017 was on display at the National Portrait Gallery, and in 2018 Polly was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature as part of its "40 Under 40" initiative.
Faber & Faber published That Face, Tusk Tusk Tusk, No Quarter, and Hotel in October 2019, which contained her first four plays. Stenham's work has been investigated at GCSE, A-level, and University level.
Bad Wolf Productions is currently producing a television series.
In the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to theatre and literature, Stenham was named Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).