Authors

Paul Murphy

Paul Murphy is a London-based playwright. He was the joint winner of Theatre503’s inaugural Playwriting Award in 2014 with Valhalla, his full-length professional debut.

Valhalla

Tommy Murphy

Tommy Murphy is an Australian playwright best known for his stage and screen adaptations of Timothy Conigrave's memoir Holding the Man, which won numerous awards including Best Play at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, an award he also won for Strangers in Between.

Holding the Man
Strangers in Between

Ben Musgrave

Ben Musgrave grew up in Britain, Bangladesh and India. His debut play, Pretend You Have Big Buildings, won first prize in the inaugural Bruntwood Playwriting Competition and was premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2007. Other plays include: Crushed Shells and Mud (Southwark Playhouse, 2015); Across the Dark Water (The Point, Eastleigh and The Berry Theatre, 2015); His Teeth (Only Connect, 2011); Exams are Getting Easier (Young REP at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 2010); Pancras Boys Club (Only Connect, 2009); and Breathing Country (Y Touring, 2009-10, shortlisted for the Theatre Centre Brian Way award for the Best New Play for Young People).

Pretend You Have Big Buildings
Crushed Shells and Mud

Nessah Muthy

Nessah Muthy is a writer for TV and theatre. Her plays include Heroine (HighTide, 2017). She has written for Cardboard Citizens, National Youth Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre. For screen, she has written for Holby City and EastEnders: E20.

Nessah Muthy
Heroine
Sex with Robots and Other Devices

Shahid Nadeem

Shahid Nadeem is founder and Executive Director of Ajoka Theatre and also a renowned theatre and television director. He has directed many popular Pakistani TV drama serials and stage plays including Burqavaganza, Hotel Mohenjo Daro, Amrika Chalo/Destination USA and Dara. His telefilm An Act of Terror received a Scottish BAFTA nomination in 2009 and was screened at London’s Asian Film Festival. His documentary on the late Bishop John Joseph, A Sun Sets In, was selected by South Asian Film Festival for worldwide screening. His telefilm Mujahid was screened at the Asia Society, New York, in 2004. He produced documentaries on human rights for Amnesty International in 1991–92. Shahid served on the Pakistan Television Corporation in various capacities including as a producer, general manager, Director of Programmes and Deputy Managing Director. He has been associated with the BBC Urdu Service, with the Pakistani newspapers including The Herald, Newsline and Daily Times, with the Indian magazine, Frontline, and with Zee News.

He was born in Sopore, Kashmir. He graduated from the prestigious Government College Lahore and gained his Masters in Applied Psychology from the Punjab University, Lahore. He lives in Lahore, Pakistan, and is married to theatre director Madeeha Gauhar. His daughter Savera and son Nirvaan are well-known actors for Pakistani stage and television.

Dara