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 Billion Beats received its Korean premiere at Seoul’s Kirkos Theatre in 2022.  Her recent writing for Augmented Reality includesThrough the Cracks (English Touring Theatre), starring Sophie Melville and Ian McKellan. She’s currently under commission to Manhattan Theatre Club and her contemporary adaptation of The Little Mermaid opens at Bristol Old Vic Christmas 2024. www.sonaliwrites.com