Kwei-Armah, Kwame

Kwame Kwei-Armah won the Peggy Ramsay award for his first play, " Bitter Herb "(1998), which was subsequently put on by the Bristol Old Vic, where he also became writer-in-residence. He followed this up with the musical "Blues Brother, Soul Sister "which toured the UK in 2001. He co-wrote the musical "Big Nose" (an adaptation of "Cyrano de Bergerac") which was performed at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in 1999. In 2003 the National Theatre produced the critically acclaimed "Elmina's Kitchen" for which in 2004 he won the Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright, an...