Razanne Carmey (Playwright) is a London-born Palestinian who started writing for British theatre in 1998. Her first two plays, The Ballad of Reading Gaoland ‘Til Love Us Do Partwere both social dramas. Razanne turned to political the­atre in 2001 with two short plays about the Nakba commissioned for the Peacock Theatre in London's West End.  Since then, she has researched and written extensively about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, and six of her plays have been produced in London, including: When Time Must Have a Stop(2002), Shooting with Parsley(2004), It Happened in a Time of Curfew(2005), and, most recently, How Palestine Became Israel(2006). As co-founder of Palestine Theatre in Motion (PTIM), she recently delivered a series of seminars and training workshops to theatre groups in Palestine, and organized the writing competition "Plan Dalet to Deir Yassin."