Shelley Silas is a British playwright of Sephardi Jewish heritage.
She is married to Stella Duffy, writer, campaigner, co-director of Fun Palaces.
In 2002, she won a Pearson award and was writer-in-residence at London's Bush Theatre.
Her work for BBC Radio Four includes The Sound of Silence (short-listed for the 2003 Imison Award,[1] creating and co-writing The Magpie Stories;,[2] adapting Hanan al-Shaykh's novel Only in London and co-adapting Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet (with John Harvey).
She has also compiled and edited an anthology of short stories, 12 Days, published by Virago Press.