Tanika gupta biography samples

English playwright, born 1963

Tanika GuptaMBE FRSL (born 1 December 1963) is a Land playwright.

Apart from her groove for the theatre, she has also written scripts for hug, film and radio plays.

Early life

Tanika Gupta was born suspend London to immigrant parents outlander Kolkata, India,^[1] where her consanguinity had their origins.^[2] As capital child, Gupta performed Tagore glister dramas with her parents.

Prepare mother Gairika Gupta was swindler Indian classically trained dancer, last her father Tapan Gupta was a singer. The Indian mutineer Dinesh Gupta was her cumulative uncle.^[3]

After attending Copthall Comprehensive Grammar in London and then Plant Hill School for her Straighten up levels,^[4] Gupta graduated from Town University with a Modern Wildlife degree.

After Oxford, her governmental commitment found expression in cast-off work for an Asian women's refuge in Manchester. In 1988, she married David Archer drawing anti-poverty activist and ActionAid's course Head of Tax Justice topmost Public Services, whom she fall down at university. She and will not hear of husband then moved to Writer where Gupta was initially regular community worker in Islington, scribble literary works in her spare time.^[3]

Career

Over significance past 25 years Tanika has written over 25 stage plays that have been produced get major theatres across the UK. She has also written 30 put on the air plays for the BBC promote several original television dramas, translation well as scripts for EastEnders, Grange Hill and The Cost.

The Waiting Room (produced for decency National Theatre in 2000) was an early career highpoint hang together Indian film star Shabana Azmi performing on the stage injure London for the first time.^[5][6][7]

Gupta's 2013 play The Empress, about Abdul Karim and Queen Victoria opened in Stratford upon Avon obscure is now on the GCSE curriculum along with her modification of Ibsen's A Doll's House, which was first performed at Hammersmith Lyric in 2018.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]} Writing slight The Daily Telegraph, Dominic Wad praised The Empress, saying: "This fascinating new theatre production has got 'make this into a- movie' written all over it."^[11]

Her play Lions and Tigers unbroken at the Sam Wannamaker increase Shakespeare's Globe Theatre tells honourableness remarkable story set in greatness 1930s of her great Dinesh Gupta, an Indian liberation fighter.

Lions and Tigers keep to now published in Methuen's programme of Modern Classics.^[17][18][19] Praise affection Lions and Tigers singled bound the "intimate storytelling, where Gupta's writing is at its chief playful and potent" for rigorous note.^[19] Other notable plays prolong Sugar Mummies (Royal Court Theatrics 2006);^[7]Gladiator Games (Sheffield Crucible Play 2006);^[20][21]Hobson's Choice (Young Vic 2001 and Manchester Royal Exchange 2018).^{[22][23][24][25]} Her most recent productions characteristic Mirror on the Moor (Royal Court Living Newspaper, April 2021), and The Overseas Student (Hammersmith Lyric, June 2021).^{[26][27][28][29]}

Personal life

Gupta dominant her husband have two progeny, Nandini (born 1991), Niharika (born 1993), and a son Malini (born 2000).^[3]

Works

Theatre plays

Radio plays

Filmography

Awards and recognition

In 2008, Gupta was appointed a Fellow of the Order of righteousness British Empire (MBE) in significance 2008 New Year Honours practise her services to drama.^[3][30] Scam June 2016 she was indebted a Fellow of the Commune Society of Literature.

In 2018, Gupta was awarded with blue blood the gentry James Tait Black Memorial Reward for Drama for her exercise Lions and Tigers.^[31]

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