1. Stella Frances Silas Duffy was born on 1963 and is a London-born writer and theatremaker.
15 Facts About Stella Duffy
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Stella Duffy spent her early childhood on a council estate in Woolwich.
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The family moved to Tokoroa, New Zealand when Stella Duffy was five, and Stella Duffy later returned to London.
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Stella Duffy studied English literature and drama at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Stella Duffy has written several literary novels, as well as crime novels in the Saz Martin series, published by Serpent's Tail.
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Stella Duffy has written over sixty short stories, many plays, as well as feature articles and reviews.
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Stella Duffy adapted the film script of State of Happiness for Fiesta Productions.
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Stella Duffy has written many plays, including The Book of Ruth for the Bush Theatre's inaugural Sixty Six Books set of plays, an adaptation of Medea, Prime Resident, Immaculate Conceit, The Hand, and solo shows Breaststrokes and The Tedious Predictability of Falling in Love.
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Stella Duffy has performed her solo show Breaststrokes in London, Belfast, Cardiff, Dublin, York, and Amsterdam.
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Stella Duffy directed Murder, Marple and Me for the Gilded Balloon, Cell Sell for the National Youth Theatre at the Soho Theatre; Kikia te Poa, Precious Things at the Pacific Playhouse, Skin Tight at the Pleasance Islington and Riverside Studios, My Inner Orc at the Pleasance, TaniwhaThames at OvalHouse Theatre.
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Stella Duffy wrote and presented a documentary in 2008 for the BBC's Time Shift strand called How to Write a Mills and Boon.
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Stella Duffy was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to the arts.
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On 18 April 2015, Stella Duffy spoke at one of the early meetings of a new political party, the Women's Equality Party.
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Stella Duffy is the founder and co-director of the Fun Palaces campaign.
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Stella Duffy is a practising Buddhist and as of 2010 lived in Lambeth with her wife, playwright Shelley Silas.