Polly Stenham was born on 16 July 1986 and is an English playwright known for her play That Face, which she wrote when she was 19 years old.
10 Facts About Polly Stenham
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Polly Stenham won the Evening Standards 2007 Charles Wintour Award, the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright and the 2007 Theatrical Management Association Award for Best New Play.
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Polly Stenham represented the Royal Court at the 2007 Latitude Festival before That Face transferred 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.
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Polly Stenham included Taron Egerton in his first year after studying at RADA.
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In 2013 film director Nicolas Winding Refn confirmed I Walk With the Dead as his next project and that Polly Stenham was confirmed to write the screenplay with Refn.
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Refn admitted that he asked Polly Stenham to write the screenplay to tackle his own perceived inability to write female characters.
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Polly Stenham's work is studied at GCSE, A-level and University level.
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Polly Stenham is currently developing a TV series with Bad Wolf Productions.
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Polly Stenham was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to theatre and literature.
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Polly Stenham is a fan of Radiohead's album In Rainbows, which she says she listened to constantly while writing Tusk Tusk.