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Nabilah Said

Nabilah Said is a playwright, editor, theatre critic, and poet. She has won awards for her plays Inside Voices (2019, VAULT Festival, London), which is published by Nick Hern Books; and ANGKAT: A Definitive, Alternative, Reclaimed Narrative of a Native (2019, M1 Singapore Fringe Festival), which was awarded Best Original Script at the 2020 Life Theatre Awards. She is the founder of playwright collective Main Tulis Group, and co-founder of theatre collective Rupa co.lab. Her poems and short stories have been published in anthologies by Math Paper Press, Ethos Books and Landmark Books. A former journalist with The Straits Times, Nabilah is currently the editor of regional arts website ArtsEquator. She has an MA in Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths, University of London.