{"id":1072,"date":"2015-12-17T11:49:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T11:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2018-06-22T16:08:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:08:39","slug":"drama-alumnus-sami-bilal-wins-two-prestigious-play-writing-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2015\/12\/17\/drama-alumnus-sami-bilal-wins-two-prestigious-play-writing-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical Acting MA Alumnus Sami Bilal Wins Two Prestigious Play writing Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huge Congratulations to Physical Acting MA Alumnus Sami Bilal who has recently been awarded two prestigious play writing awards.<\/p>\n<p>The first award, the State of Kuwait playwrights award will be officially awarded to Sami on January 26th 2016 at the opening of the\u00a0&#8220;Alqurain Arts Festival&#8221;.\u00a0The State of Kuwait awards are the highest awards for arts and literature in Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>Sami&#8217;s second award this year was for best playwright at the 16th Kuwait Theatre Festival.<\/p>\n<p>These two accolades were awarded for two different plays featured in Sami&#8217;s book of six plays that were published earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The School of Arts would like to congratulate Sami on these amazing achievements and wish him good luck for what is\u00a0set to be a bright play writing career!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge Congratulations to Physical Acting MA Alumnus Sami Bilal who has recently been awarded two prestigious play writing awards. The first award, the State of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2015\/12\/17\/drama-alumnus-sami-bilal-wins-two-prestigious-play-writing-awards\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39610,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,118135,26567],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}