Zahra Airall is a writer, women's rights activist, film maker. director, and playwright from Antigua and Barbuda.[1] She is a founding member of the organization Women of Antigua[2] and is one of their executives.[3] She is the director of the Sugar Apple Theatre in Antigua.[4][5] She has written plays such as The Forgotten, which was performed in the Caribbean Secondary Schools Drama Festival by Antigua Girls' High School.[6] Airall is one of the contributors to She Sex,[7] a collaborative book with sections written by different Caribbean women.[8] She also writes short stories such as "The Looking Glass".[9] She wrote a specially commissioned monologue for Heather Doram.[10]
Awards
She has won multiple awards at the National Youth Awards (Antigua),[11] including the award for literary arts in 2016 for her involvement in many things over the years including works within the organization Women of Antigua (When a Woman Moans, Vagina Monologues) and August Rush (Expressions).[12][13] Zahra has produced and scripted stage as well as film/TV content and steps on stage in numerous productions and in from of the camera (on Keeping it Real).[14]
^Gibbings, Wesley (6 November 2015). "An unforgettable plot". The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
^Obè, Paula; Carol N. Hosein (2013). She sex : prose & poetry - sex and the Caribbean woman. Trinidad and Tobago: Bamboo Talk Press. ISBN978-1494213794. OCLC872607310.
