COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES

Behna Sandeep Garcha Mum Gurpreet Singh Jag Sandeep¶s career includes many roles for TV, Theatre, Radio Gurpreet trained at LAMDA. Theatre includes By Sonia Likhari and Film. TV includes Horizon (BBC), Spooks (BBC) and various characters in Paradise (Theatre Rites), commercials Including Patak Sauces and Virgin Business Islander in Nation (National Theatre), Ashish in During an acting class I was trying to Media. Theatre includes Darwaza Khula Hai, Ek Chader Maili White Open Spaces (Pentabus), Dhani in get a handle on the character of Ines in Si, Paison Ki Hera Pheri and Behna (2010). For Radio she has Zameen (Kali/Arts Theatre), Sebastian in Twelfth Lope de Vega¶s Peribanez. Two minutes presented shows on Kismat (Sunrise Radio) and Asian Star, Night, Amiens/Hymen in As You Like It (both and is a regular guest for BBC Berkshire. Sandeep has also RSC), various characters in Orientations (Border of improvisation with another student, provided Voice overs for many documentaries, commercials Crossings), Ensemble/Understudy Sweetie in playing a pair of sisters in a typical and training films. Her Bollywood films include Mr Bhatti On Bombay Dreams (Victoria Apollo), Manir in East Punjabi household, solved the problem. Chutti, Honour Killing and Life Goes On. Is East (New Vic Theatre), Cassio in Othello The seed for the characters of Dal and (Leicester Haymarket). TV and Film: Dupinder Simi was planted then. My own Shaleen Hudda Dal Badmarsh in All About Me (Celador), Ricky Patel in Murder In Mind (BBC), Rana in Casualty experience of women¶s relationships Shaleen trained at LAMDA and University of Windsor, Canada. (BBC), Shop Assistant in Sari and Trainers Theatre includes: Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream within a male oriented environment led (Channel 4 Film). (Shakespeare's Rose), Dal in Behna (2010 Birmingham), me to the develop those characters¶ stories into the play, Behna. Parveen in An Ode to my Sisters, Antony & Cleopatra, Hamlet, Richard III (The Scoop, London), The Title Of The Drama About Balvinder Sopal Masi Ji Ante Is Written Here (Blue Elephant), Lady Macbeth (Principal After a BA in Theatre/Media Studies at the Sonia Likhari Theatre Workshop), Parnya Have Shun (Bharatiya Vidya University of Huddersfield in 2001, Balvinder Bhavan) and Pickles Puja and Pinups (Bush Theatre). started worked for Chol Theatre, a community Sonia Likhari Writer Commercials include: The Halcrow Group and Heart Radio. TV based company in Huddersfield. She continues to Sonia took a sabbatical from her legal includes: Nisha Patel-Nasri in the TV documentary Real Crime: work nationally in radio, theatre and TV. Recent practice in 2004 to focus on a writing A Very Special Constable. theatre: Tales of the Harrow Road (Soho and performance career. Acting Theatre), The House of Bilquis Bibi (Tamasha), experience includes Chopra Town Hema Mangoo Simi Counted (Look Left Look Right Theatre), Table Manners (Lawrence Batley Theatre). Mela (West (BBC/Hat Trick) and The Trouble With Hema was born and raised in Birmingham and graduated with a Yorkshire Playhouse), Beast Market (Chol Asian Men (Tamasha, Soho Theatre BA from East 15 Acting School, London. Theatre includes: Theatre), Fight Club (Benchmark Theatre). Behna (Birmingham Rep/Black Country Touring & Kali Theatre), and tour) for which she was also a Radio: A Nursery Tale (BBC Radio4), Castaway- Stronger (Women & Theatre), Apna Ghar (Foursight Theatre & researcher. Behna (Sisters) is her first Markets (BBC Radio Manchester), Enemy of the Black Country Touring), Trashed (Theatre Centre), Layla play. It was developed with Kali and People (BBC Radio 4), We're Not Getting Majnun (MAC), Paradise (Birmingham Rep), Behna (2010, originally performed as a workshop Married, Silver Street (both BBC Asian Network). Birmingham). Film & TV: Doctors (BBC), Belonging Series 9 production at Soho Theatre. During a Film/TV: White Girl (BBC1), Adha Cup (BBC Wales), , (Lime Pictures), Always And Everyone (Channel4), Waterloo Road, . year with Tamasha as Artist in (Granada), (S)He's Perfect (Cr8 Media), Open Secrets (Azko Residence she wrote Eyrie. Set in 1984 Films). Radio includes: Jasmin Chauhan on Silver Street (BBC against the background of Operation Asian Network), Divided We Fall (Mannmade Productions Ltd), Janet Steel Director Bluestar, this play is still in development. One Thousand Days One Thousand Nights (BBC). Artistic Director of Kali since 2003. Janet¶s Other writing credits include Silver directing career began in 1988 at Loose Change Street (BBC Asian Network), Planet Ajay Jessica Thanki Stage Manager Theatre with her first full-length piece, White (Foundation TV/CBBC), Where¶s My BA in Theatre Production. Since graduating in 2008, Jessica Biting Dog. Directing: Behzti (Birmingham Rep), Desi Soulmate?(Rifco Arts), Snapshots has stage managed the following shows: The Maid, Rich Mix April in Paris, Bretevski Street, A Hard Rain, Top Girls (Northampton Royal), Millennium Mysteries, and Resolutions (BBC Asian Network). (Odd Man Out Productions), Double Dutch Espresso, (Theatre Waah, Tristan Bates), Measure for Measure (BADA, Oval Big School (Belgrade Coventry); Antigone, The She is currently under commission to Mother, Orpheus Descending, An Ideal Husband, Kali and Birmingham Repertory Theatre. House), Maybe Father, (Talawa, The Young Vic), Behna 2010, (Kali, Birmingham Repertory Theatre & Black Country Touring), Romeo & Juliet, The Knockey, Serious Money (Rose Bruford). For Kali: Calcutta Kosher, Chaos, a studio tour of It Hasn¶t Happened Yet (Liz Carr) and company stage managed Black I, (Kali, Oval House) and Gandhi and Paper Thin, Deadeye, Zameen, Another Paradise, Ghandi & Coconuts and eleven public Coconuts (Kali national studio tour). readings of new work.