title: Paula B. Stanic
text: # Paula B. Stanic
  
  Paula B. Stanic (also known as Paula Bardowell Stanic) is a British playwright and the winner of the 2008 Alfred Fagon Award for the best new play by a Black playwright of African or Caribbean descent living in the United Kingdom. Her play Monday was short-listed for the 2009 John Whiting Award. She has been a writer-in-residence at the Royal Court Theatre and Soho Theatre (2012-13), and a writer on attachment at the National Theatre Studio.
  
  She grew up in Manor Park, East London. Her parents are from Jamaica, and her husband is from Serbia.
  
  ## Plays
  
  * Love & Marriage, [contributor] 2001
  * What's Lost, 2008
  * Late-night Shopping, [short] 2009
  * 6 Minutes, [short] 2009
  * Monday, 2009
  * Pancras Boys Club, [co-written with Ben Musgrave and David Watson] 2012
  * Under a Foreign Sky, 2011
  * Blair's Children, [contributor] 2013
  * Steering Through Stars, 2015
  * Disconnect
  * Icons, 2017
  * Messiah, 2018
  