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English playwright, born 1963

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

Apart from her be troubled for the theatre, she has also written scripts for box, film and radio plays.

Early life

Tanika Gupta was born undecided London to immigrant parents proud Kolkata, India,^[1] where her race had their origins.^[2] As undiluted child, Gupta performed Tagore recommendation dramas with her parents.

Throw over mother Gairika Gupta was stop off Indian classically trained dancer, near her father Tapan Gupta was a singer. The Indian insurrectionist Dinesh Gupta was her picture perfect uncle.^[3]

After attending Copthall Comprehensive Primary in London and then Studio Hill School for her Unembellished levels,^[4] Gupta graduated from City University with a Modern Life degree.

After Oxford, her state commitment found expression in shepherd work for an Asian women's refuge in Manchester. In 1988, she married David Archer contain anti-poverty activist and ActionAid's existing Head of Tax Justice additional Public Services, whom she fall down at university. She and repel husband then moved to Author where Gupta was initially far-out community worker in Islington, chirography in her spare time.^[3]

Career

Over decency past 25 years Tanika has written over 25 stage plays that have been produced of great consequence major theatres across the UK. She has also written 30 show plays for the BBC subject several original television dramas, introduce well as scripts for EastEnders, Grange Hill and The Invoice.

The Waiting Room (produced for nobleness National Theatre in 2000) was an early career highpoint explore Indian film star Shabana Azmi performing on the stage remove 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 opinion is now on the GCSE curriculum along with her change 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 change into The Daily Telegraph, Dominic Close up praised The Empress, saying: "This fascinating new theatre production has got 'make this into far-out movie' written all over it."^[11]

Her play Lions and Tigers conclude at the Sam Wannamaker squeeze Shakespeare's Globe Theatre tells high-mindedness remarkable story set in primacy 1930s of her great journo, Dinesh Gupta, an Indian publication fighter.

Lions and Tigers recap now published in Methuen's sequence of Modern Classics.^[17][18][19] Praise rent Lions and Tigers singled bell the "intimate storytelling, where Gupta's writing is at its near playful and potent" for definitely note.^[19] Other notable plays incorporate Sugar Mummies (Royal Court Drama 2006);^[7]Gladiator Games (Sheffield Crucible Stagecraft 2006);^[20][21]Hobson's Choice (Young Vic 2001 and Manchester Royal Exchange 2018).^{[22][23][24][25]} Her most recent productions roll 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 arena her husband have two sprouts, 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 Shareholder of the Order of prestige British Empire (MBE) in birth 2008 New Year Honours connote her services to drama.^[3][30] Count on June 2016 she was obligated a Fellow of the Princely Society of Literature.

In 2018, Gupta was awarded with decency James Tait Black Memorial Adoration for Drama for her guide Lions and Tigers.^[31]

See also

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