Deepika Arwind is an international playwright and theatre-maker originally from Bangalore whose work has been presented across India, the USA and Europe. She has won or been nominated for several awards, including the Toto Award, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, The Hindu Playwright Award. She was recently a playwright-in-residence at Jagriti, part of The International […]

Gayathiri is a Tamil theatre-maker and poet. Their work explores how language shapes adolescence and how we might use it to queer the future. Gayathiri won the Disabled Poets Prize 2024, the Faber & Andlyn Publisher’s Prize 2022 and the Primadonna Fiction Prize 2021. Gayathiri runs Queering Lit, a workshop series on the business of writing for queer […]

Internationally acclaimed Bapsi Sidhwa is an award winning Pakistani novelist striving above all to bring women’s issues of the Indian subcontinent into public discussion. Bapsi was raised in Lahore, Pakistan. She now lives in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore. Her 5 novels: Cracking India,The Pakistani Bride, The Crow Eaters, An American Brat, and Water, have been […]

Sadly Gulshanah passed away from cancer shortly after her first play, My Daughter’s Trial was presented by Kali. This is her biography from that time: Jabine Chaudri is the writer pseudonym for Gulshanah Choudhuri who is a special needs education law barrister practising in Winchester and London. In 2008 she won a national BBC writing initiative called […]

Iman is an award winning writer for stage, screen and radio, and currently writer-in-residence at the National Theatre. Her first play Speed was developed and produced by Kali Theatre. In 2018 she won the Papatango New Writing Prize with her second full length play The Funeral Director which premiered at the Southwark Playhouse, followed up […]

Satinder Chohan is a journalist and documentary researcher/assistant producer turned playwright from Southall, West London.

Screenwriter, playwright and prose writer, Sharmila’s work is often a transgressive meditation on love, sex and the diasporic experience. Her plays including The Husbands, Born Again/Purnajanam and 10 Women all place women centre stage and explore power and femininity. Sharmila has had two short films (Girl Like You, Oysters) produced and written two features. Her […]

Sonali Bhattacharyya is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her stage plays include King Troll (The Fawn) – Kali Theatre/New Diorama Theatre,  Liberation Squares (Fifth Word/Nottingham Playhouse/Brixton House) – nominated for two OffWestEnd Awards, Arabian Nights (Bristol Old Vic), The Jungle Book (Chichester Festival Theatre),Chasing Hares (Young Vic/Theatre Uncut) – winner of the Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award and the Sonia Friedman Production Award,Silence (Tara Theatre/Donmar Warehouse) and Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre). Two […]

Azma has written for theatre, radio and screen. Her novel The Secret Arts has been published as an e-book by Dean Street Press.  A chapter from this won the New Ventures Writing Award and her play Vampire in Bradford won the New Perspective Long Play Competition. Azma has also worked on several community projects, including […]

Yasmin is a Youth Worker, Writer, Presenter, film producer & Social Activist Youth Work: Full time youth worker for City and Islington Sixth Form College from 2002 to current. Talks & Interviews include: BBC Radio 4, Front Row, television, Beyond These Walls – Ritla Shah, BBC Frontrow – Mark Lawson, Theatre Voice- Dominic Cavendish, ICA, […]