Career
As a writer, her plays include Soho: A Tale of Table Dancers which she wrote for the Royal Shakespeare Company Fringe in 2000. It won a Fringe First award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Helen Raynor's production was revived in London on 2 February 2001, the first play to be staged at the Arcola Theatre. Lenkiewicz also appeared in the play in the role of Stella.
With her second play in 2004, The Night Season, set in Sligo, she won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright. It was staged at the Royal National Theatre in the Cottesloe auditorium by Lucy Bailey.
In July 2005 Lenkiewicz received generally encouraging reviews for her Shoreditch Madonna, directed by Sean Mathias at the Soho Theatre. A tale of love among the artists in an East London gallery, it starred Francesca Annis and Leigh Lawson. .
In January 2006 she and Abdulkareem Kasid created a new version of The Soldier's Tale, a music theatre piece by Igor Stravinsky and Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, set in Iraq. It was staged at the Old Vic. In August of the same year, her play Blue Moon Over Poplar was staged by the National Youth Theatre company at the Soho Theatre.
In April 2008 her new adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People opened at the Arcola Theatre, directed by its founder Mehmet Ergen. .
Her play Her Naked Skin, directed by Howard Davies, premiered on the Olivier stage at the NT in July 2008, the first play to be performed on the Olivier stage by a living female playwright. In January 2011 her play The Painter on the life of JMW Turner premiered at the Arcola Theatre to mark its move into new premises.
Lenkiewicz's adaptation of Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw is scheduled to be performed at London's Almeida Theatre in January 2013.
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