Yusra Warsama

Biography

Yusra Warsama is a British playwright and theatre director born on July 9, 1987, to a Somali Islamic family displaced by civil war in the UAE. She studied criminology and sociology before becoming a mother and moving to Manchester, where she became involved with the Contact Theatre. Warsama's notable works include "Rites," a play about female experience of genital mutilation, and her 2023 free-form adaptation of Federico García Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba."