Charlotte Eagar

Charlotte Eagar is Contributing Editor on Newsweek, an award-winning film-maker and foreign correspondent, magazine journalist, novelist and co-founder of the Syrian Trojan Women Project, a drama therapy and strategic communications project for Syrian refugees. In November 2014, she co-produced We Are All Refugees, a 6-part Arabic audio drama soap pilot about Syrian refugees in Jordan, in conjunction with the UNHCR and Souriali Radio. It is being broadcast on Souriali Radio and the UNHCR website. In December 2013 in Jordan, she co-produced Syria: The Trojan Women, an Arabic production of Euripides' great anti-war tragedy with an all-female amateur cast of Syrian refugees, supported by Oxfam and directed by the Syrian director Omar Abusaada. Charlotte Eagar is an executive producer on Queens of Syria, a documentary about the original Syria Trojan Women production, directed by Yasmin Fedda, which won Best Director in the Arab World at its premiere at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival in November 2014, produced by Georgina Paget of Refuge Productions. She is currently working with her husband William Stirling – her co-writer and co-producer on the Syria Trojan Women projects – on a feature film version of the Trojan Women, directed by DR Hood (Wreckers, 2013) and produced by Georgina Paget of Refuge Productions, due to be shot on location in Jordan in May 2015, as well as several Syrian refugee drama therapy projects. In April 2013 Charlotte and her husband worked on their first drama therapy project in Dandora, Nairobi, co-writing and co-directing the eight-part mini soap Nothing's Gonna Change for Me, with an amateur cast of Nairobi slum kids, commissioned by M&S through the NGO Emerging Leaders. Charlotte Eagar's first film, a short romantic comedy, Scooterman, co-written and co-produced with William Stirling, directed and co-produced by Kirsten Cavendish, won audience-rated Best of the Fest at Palm Springs and the LA Comedy Festival (2010), and opened the Santa Barbara F