Hannah Khalil was the 2022 Resident Writer at Shakespeare’s Globe and her work there includes Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights, Henry VIII and The Fir Tree (2021 and 2022). Hannah’s other stage plays include A Museum in Baghdad (Royal Shakespeare Company) which marked the first play by a woman of Arab heritage on a main stage at the RSC,  Interference (National Theatre of Scotland) and the critically acclaimed Scenes from 68* Years - shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award (Arcola Theatre, London, 2016). Scenes has also been mounted in San Francisco, New York, France and in Tunisia in a British Council supported production called Trouf.  

Hannah’s first opera libretto, The Great Stink for young people was produced by English Touring Opera and toured the UK in Spring 2024. She has written multiple radio plays for BBC Radio 4 and TV work includes the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks. Hannah held the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University and the Samuel Beckett Research Centre Creative Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is co creative director of the Not Beckett Festival, a festival of new plays inspired by Beckett which will tour internationally from Autumn 2024 until the end of 2025 visiting London, Paris, New York, Philadelphia and Dublin.