Prasanna Puwanarajah Director/Writer

Prasanna is a former NHS doctor who is now an actor, director and writer.

He is currently an Artistic Associate at the Donmar Warehouse, Associate Artist of Wilton’s Music Hall, a Trustee of the National Youth Theatre and a Patron of The Theatrical Guild.

Agents

Dan Usztan Assistant [email protected] Charlotte Edwards 0203 214 0873 [email protected] 0203 214 0924

Credits

Television

Production Company Notes FEAR FATIGUE BBC4/Headlong Writer, 1 x 18' 2020 Part of UNPRECEDENTED

Theatre

Production Company Notes VENICE PRESERVED Royal Shakespeare Company Director 2019 (Swan Theatre) By Thomas Otway

United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes THE RELUCTANT NYT/Summerhall/Bradford Director FUNDAMENTALIST Literary Festival Revival Production 2018 Winner: The Lustrum Award, Summerhall. Winner: The Stage Debut Award - Best Actor AKSHAY SHARAN. Nominated: The Carol Tambor Award 2018 Nominated: The Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award 2018

JOURNEY'S END RADA Director 2018 By R.C. Sherriff

THE RELUCTANT NYT/The Yard Director FUNDAMENTALIST Revival Production 2017

A BITTER HERB RADA Director 2017 By Kwame Kwei-Armah

THE RELUCTANT National Youth Director FUNDAMENTALIST Theatre/Finborough Theatre Adapted from the novel by Mohsin 2016 Hamid by Stephanie Street

HEADSTART Headlong Theatre/Blacklisted Headlong's Emerging Writers' Group 2015 Films

PEDDLING Arcola Theatre/HighTide Dramaturg 2014 Festival/59E59, New York By Harry Melling

MOTH HighTide Festival/Bush Theatre Director 2013 By Declan Greene

NIGHTWATCHMAN National Theatre (Paintframe) Writer 2011 Part of DOUBLE FEATURE Nominated for Critics' Circle Awards: Best New Playwright

THE WAGES OF THIN Old Red Lion Director 2010 By Trevor Griffiths Nominated for WhatsOnStage.com Award for Best Off-West End Production and for 5 OffWestEnd.com Awards (including Best Production)

ON THE HARMFUL New End Theatre Director EFFECTS OF TOBACCO By Anton Chekhov 2009

SOMETHING I WROTE Tabard Theatre Director IN A HURRY By Nick Gill 2008 Best Production, Lost Theatre Festival

United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Other

Production Company Notes MICROSCOPE Fabric/Glastonbury/Latitude Live Audio Visual show for the release of 2010 RIZ MC (Riz Ahmed)'s debut album "MICroscope"

United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected]