Sonali Bhattacharyya is an award-winning playwright whose stage plays include Arabian Nights (Bristol Old Vic), Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre) and Chasing Hares (Young Vic/Theatre Uncut) winner of the Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award and the Sonia Friedman Production Award.

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 […]

Atiha Sen Gupta is a playwright and screenwriter. Plays include: WHAT FATIMA DID (2009), STATE RED (2014), COUNTING STARS (2015 – 2016), CASTAWAYS (2017), ABI (2018) and GIG (2019). Atiha’s work has been nominated for the Evening Standard’s Most Promising Playwright Award and the John Whiting Award (2010) and Amnesty International’s Freedom of Expression Award (2015). For TV, Atiha has written for SKINS, HOLBY CIY and EASTENDERS. She […]

Emteaz Hussain’s produced works include BLOOD, OUTSIDERS, SWEET CIDER, ETCHING for BBC 3, and more recently an adaptation of Alex Wheatle’s CRONGTON KNIGHTS. She is currently commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre, London, for a new play ERASURE and is a contributor to their ‘THE LIVING NEWSPAPER’ writer collective.

Kiran Benawra is a writer and producer. She has worked on productions for BBC One, Channel 4 and MTV. Kiran’s TV script was included in the BFI Postroom’s Top Picks of 2016, she was a finalist in the comedy writing category at the Funny Women Awards 2017, and she has recently written and co-produced the Meanwhile in […]

Veronica has been writing for theatre since 2012. Commissions include: Kali Theatre She is Not Herself (2016); Paines Plough Come to Where I’m From (2019), Paper Nations’ Time To Write (2020).  Her play Aftercare about leaving the care system is in development. She is a wordsmith for Salisbury Congress, a Wiltshire Creative/All The Queens Men (Melbourne, Australia), partnership for Salisbury International Arts Festival 2020 (postponed […]

Miriam was a member of  Kali’s TalkBack Program in 2016. Since then she has written several short plays and monologues, including Surprise! which was performed at the Stick Man Club and Hair which premiered at The Arts Theatre,Leicester Square as part of Female Edit:100. Hair has also recently been recorded as an audio drama by Ragged […]

A writer and publisher born in Leicester. She is the editor of The Asian Writer and manages small independent press, Dahlia Publishing. In 2017, she won the inaugural Travelex / Penguin Next Great Travel Writer Competition and was long-listed for the 2018 Spread the Word Life Writing Prize. She can be found on Twitter talking about […]

A playwright, screenwriter and facilitator, Sabiha has been a part of various artist development programmes including Discovery Programme 2018/19 with Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Kali Theatre, Critical Mass 2018/19 with Belgrade Theatre, Talkback 2017/18 with Kali Theatre, and Write Away 2015 with Birmingham Repertory Theatre. She has had work shared at the Belgrade, The REP, Shakespeare’s Globe, Jermyn Street Theatre, and BBC Writersroom.