Carmen Nasr

Carmen is a British-Lebanese writer, who grew up in Beirut and has been London-based for the last ten years. In 2022, her play THE CLIMBERS premiered at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick directed by Guy Jones. In the same year her previous play THE MALADIES, made with the Almeida Theatre young company, premiered at The Yard Theatre directed by Yasmin Hafesji. In 2017 Carmen was a winner of the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme, on which she was attached to the Finborough Theatre, where her play DUBAILAND previously premiered. In 2018 she was commissioned by Kiln Theatre to write a play for their young company, LET KILBURN SHAKE. Carmen is currently under commission to the Kiln Theatre/Sky Productions, Almeida Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, and is adapting Booker Prize shortlisted novel BURNT SUGAR by Avni Doshi, for the Lot Productions. She was previously a member of the Orange Tree Writers Collective and the Royal Court’s Playwriting Group. In 2015 her play THE HOUSE OF MY FATHER was long-listed for the Bruntwood Prize.

Carmen teaches playwriting at Manchester University & Royal Holloway University of London.