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, […]

Bettina has had 11 radio plays produced for BBC Radio 4, two theatre plays, Singh Tangos and Gandhi & Coconuts produced by Kali Theatre, an operatic monologue It’s Ten pm and They’re Late produced by Tete a Tete at Riverside Studios and a one-off TV drama, The Wedding Party by BBC Choice. Her stage play Other was […]

Aamina grew up in London. After completing an MA in Television Drama she worked as a script editor for the BBC, ITV and independent production companies on a number of prime-time network shows. She has been selected for various script development schemes including Arista’s Scribes program, the UK Film Council’s Blank Slate scheme and The […]

Rukhsana is a playwright, writer and translator. Stage plays include: Song for a Sanctuary, Gatekeeper’s Wife, River on Fire, Mistaken: Annie Besant in India and Letting Go. For BBC Radio, besides originals, she has adapted: Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero, Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, R. K. Narayan’s The Guide, Kiran Desai’s The […]

Anu is a writer and theatre practitioner. Her work includes: Waterfall (Ashfield Theatre Croydon -Pick of the Week in Time Out), The Ecstasy, (Oval House Theatre), London Fields (rehearsed reading by Kali at Soho Theatre), Awaking Durga (Soho Theatre), TWELVE, a commissioned piece that was part of Kali’s Honour Killings project. She is currently working on her digital interactive […]

Sayan’s plays include Tales of Birbal (Mashi Theatre, 2015/2017), My Big Fat Cowpat Wedding (Kali/BCT, rural tour 2014 & 2016), Endless Light (Kali/Southwark Playhouse), Another Paradise (Kali tour, shortlisted for the John Whiting Award), The Contract (joint winner of the Capital New Writing Festival, Birmingham). Recent short plays: Jessica (Arcola), Skin (Park Theatre). Sayan is also a […]