Our latest Kali production, Nessah Muthy’s Sundowning has come to a close. We are so pleased to have worked on such a wonderful production, and even more pleased to have worked with such a lovely team of people.Here’s a few of our favourite production photos to wrap up a great run:

The ever so talented Iman Qureshi spoke to The Stage about her experience in writing and getting into theatre. She speaks a bit about Kali and we’d be lying if we said we weren’t very proud. Good luck to Iman, we are so excited to see what you do next! Read the full The Stage […]

Congratulations to all of the chosen applicants for our Kali Discovery Programme!

Congratulations to playwright, composer and actor Sayan Kent for having had an except of her opera, Red Seed produced as part of The Arcola’s prestigious Grimeborn Programme. Last summer Sayan attended a week-long workshop run by the Royal Opera House/Opera Up North/ Lyric Hammersmith for BAME artists interested in creating opera. Since then the group […]

Huge congratulations to Kali Artistic Associate Pooja Ghai for winning the 2018 Eastern Eye Award for Best Director for her work on Tanika Gupta’s play Lion and Tigers.  

Winner of the 2018 Papatango prize is writer Iman Qureshi with her play THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR. The play will receive its world premiere at Southwark Playhouse from 31st October – 24th November 2018. We are so proud of Iman & can’t wait to see the show!

Congratulations to Kali Stage Manager – Jessica Thanki who has been awarded a Highly Commended Stage Management Award at the annual SMA Ceremony this year. Wonderful news and richly deserved!

We’re thrilled to be launching a weekend Summer School in partnership with the excellent Drama Studio, London we can offer 8 free places to aspiring actors of South Asian descent. Participants will receive tutorials in voice, movement and  text analysis.  This taster weekend will take place at Drama Studio, London (August 11th & 12th 2018) www.dramastudiolondon.co.uk

WAR plays writer Rukhsana Ahmad on her recent podcast commission: “I loved writing Trial by Fire, the story of Anne Askew. Each draft brought me closer to a historic personage of whom I’d known nothing until Historic Royal Palaces offered me an exciting  commission with a choice of stories. I chose Anne’s story. The earliest […]

Award winning journalist and human rights correspondent, Nadene Ghouri curates a WAR plays panel event to discuss women and war with focus on Afghanistan.  Nadene is joined by photojournalist Kate Holt who has covered global war zones for numerous UK newspapers;  Elaha Walizadeh, co-founder of Afghan Women in the Diaspora and Dr Ayesha Ahmad, a […]