EJCC Live – Vanessa Rosenthal “Inside Out – a Life in Stages” 7.30 – 9pm Via Zoom

EDINBURGH JEWISH CULTURAL CENTRE EVENT VIA ZOOM

The playwright and actress will be reading from and talking about her recently published autobiography, and her radio and theatre plays depicting events relating to the Holocaust.
Vanessa Rosenthal grew up in Manchester and was part of Jackson’s Row Reform community. She trained as an actor at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. In a long and varied career as an actor and playwright she has worked in theatre, television and radio.

For BBC Radio 4 she created and devised the iconic ‘Writing The Century’ series, as well as writing numerous original dramas including ‘Bye, Bye Miss America High’ which was short listed for a Bafta. Her play ‘Exchanges In Bialystok’ was inspired by her family history and was chosen to represent the BBC at the European Broadcasting Union’s Conference in Helsinki. Vanessa’s theatre play ‘Karen’s Way: a Kindertransport Life’, about the poet and survivor Karen Gershon, was performed in Leeds and at the Edinburgh Fringe and was invited to perform at the Beit Avi Chai Theatre in Jerusalem.

In conversation with producer/director David Ian Neville, Vanessa will talk about her work as a writer and her personal exploration of her Jewish identity.

This will be an event on Zoom and will be recorded. Join the event from 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start.