Afeif Ismail is playwright and Poet, was born in Elhasahisa/Sudan in 1962 and arrived in Australia in 2003. He is an internationally published poet and playwright. His works has been translated into German, Swedish. Afeif has published many works of poetry in English Bet of the Argil, Mum! This World Lies to Us; Orphaned Birds and The African Magician, Son of the Nile and 3Seeds as playscripts. 2014: International Playwright Observer at 2014 New Visions/New Voices festival at Kennedy Centre for Arts, Washington DC. 2013: a short version of his play Unsuitable Hats was read at Write Local Play