Hassan Abdulrazzak

is a playwright, screenwriter and translator. His stag plays include The Special Relationship, And Here I Am, Love, Bombs and Apples, The Prophet and Baghdad Wedding. His 2025 BBC Radio 4 adaptation The Yafa Cherry Orchard earned Drama Award nominations. His short film A Night of Gharam won the Unsolicited Scripts Short Film Grant (2022) and went on to win further awards following its release in 2023. He has translated from Arabic the work of Imad Farajin (Royal Court, 2008), Laila Soliman (Royal Court, 2011), Abdullah Alkafri (Lark Theatre, NYC, 2015), Jawad Al-Assadi (Banipal Magazine, issue 54, 2015), Hanane Haj Ali (Gate Theatre / Edinburgh Festival / Kennedy Centre, Washington DC, 2019), Wael Qadour (Gate Theatre, 2019) and Mudar Alhaggi (Manchester International Theatre Festival, 2024 and currently touring internationally). Further, he has translated short stories by Hassan Blasim (Markaz Review July 2025) and Mahmoud Al-Bayaty (Banipial Magazine, issue 49, 2014). He is the recipient of the George Devine, Meyer-Whitworth and Pearson Theatre Awards, as well as the Arab British Centre Award for Culture. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.