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= Zu Quirke =

Zu Quirke is a  screen writer and director resident in Los Angeles.
Susanna K E (“Zu”) Quirke is a screen writer, director and musician living in Los Angeles, California. She was educated at King Edward VI High School, Birmingham, England, The Junior Royal Academy of Music, London and Oriel College, Oxford University. She was a first violin with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for three years and led the National Youth Sinfonietta in 2010.

Whilst at Oxford, she directed a number of successful theatre productions and a film. The theatre  included “Posh” at the Oxford Union which attracted national attention [1]. Its author, Laura Wade, acknowledged Zu’s assistance in the development of the play[2].

She left Oxford with a First in Classics in 2014.

In November 2016 she won a BAFTA Rocliffe Prize for New Screenwriting

She wrote and directed Nocturne[3] for Blumhouse Productions and Amazon Original Movies, released 13th October 2020. It is a supernatural drama based on musical competition between gifted sisters

She is the sister of the writer Kieron Quirke. [1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8853595/Oxford-Union-takes-a-pop-at-David-Cameron.html

[2] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fxdWG0hx5-UC&pg=PT4&lpg=PT4&dq=susanna+quirke+posh+laura+wade&source=bl&ots=ww-kPGjx1x&sig=ACfU3U35shI0KzYzC13K1zI1oCd1Nz00HA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjWlc6L5Y3sAhVxRBUIHXfbDLIQ6AEwEnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=susanna%20quirke%20posh%20laura%20wade&f=false

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturne_(2020_film)