The Husbands. Sharmila Chauhan
Stratford and New York. Currently, he is a guest director at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Shakespeare’s Globe.
Rhik Samadder Sem
Rhik Samadder trained at Drama Centre London. Since graduating his theatre credits include title roles in The Indian Boy (RSC) and Romeo and Juliet (Salisbury Playhouse). Other theatre includes King Saturn (Soho Theatre), Fewer Emergencies (Oxford Playhouse), No Smoke (Arcola Theatre) and Ealing Common (Theatre503). Film Credits include: Chemical Wedding (Warner Bros) and Arrivals (Wilf Varvill). TV credits include: Strikeback (HBO) and Doctors (BBC). Corporate work includes work for NHS, SANE and idents for Channel 4. Rhik is also a regular freelance journalist for the Guardian.
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Syreeta Kumar Aya
Trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has worked extensively in theatre and television. Theatre credits include Olivia in Twelfth Night (Filter Theatre Company), Midnight’s Children, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Camino Real (Royal Shakespeare Company), Haroun and The Sea Of Stories (National Theatre), has also worked with London Bubble, Tara Arts, Talawa, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Leicester Haymarket. Television credits include Silk, Torchwood, The Shadow Line, Hustle, Doctors, Eastenders and most recently Coronation Street. She lives in Brighton with her two daughters, cat, dog, and ONE husband.
Mark Theodore Omar
Trained: Poor School. Theatre includes: Julius Caesar (RSC), The Prince of Homburg (Donmar Warehouse), Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith), Twelfth Night (York Theatre Royal), Treasure Island (West End), Days of Significance, Macbeth, God in Ruins, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, Days of Significance (RSC), Festen (National Tour), 93.2 fm (Royal Court), A Raisin in the Sun (Young Vic), Animal Farm (Northern Stage), Dirty Butterfly, Wrong Place (Soho Theatre), Measure for Measure (NT). TV includes: Obsession: Dark Desires (October Films), The Dumping Ground (BBC), Friday Night Dinner (Big Talk Productions), Julius Caesar (Illuminations Television). Film includes: Ali G in da House.
Jean Chan Set and Costume Designer
Graduated from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Trainee Designer for the RSC. Won the 2009 Linbury Prize for Stage Design. A runner up in the Arts Foundation Awards 2013. Design credits include: BFG (Dundee Rep); Tonypandemonium (National Theatre Wales), Hope Light and Nowhere (Edinburgh Fringe), The Hairy Ape, The Irish Giant, The Seagull (Southwark Playhouse); The Suit (Young Vic); Hamlet YPS (RSC); The Garbage King (Unicorn Theatre). 1984, Alice By Heart (Lyric Hammersmith); Mayfair (Pentabus/Latitude Festival); I Have a Dream (Polka); When The Waters Came (Theatre Centre); Why the Lion Danced (Yellow Earth Theatre); The Birthday of the Infanta (Trestle Theatre); The Roman Bath (Arcola Theatre); Associate Design credits include: Lionboy (Complicite), Five Guys Named Moe (Edinburgh & Theatre Royal Stratford East); Monsters (Arcola /Strawberry Vale Productions). www.jeanchan.co.uk
Arun Ghosh Sound
Arun Ghosh is a British Asian clarinettist, composer, Musical Director and music educator. He has composed music for over forty theatre, dance and radio productions, and has released three critically acclaimed albums; Northern Namaste (2008), Primal Odyssey (2011) and A South Asian Suite (2013) on Camoci Records. Other significant works include his re-score of feature length animation The Adventures of Prince Achmed, and contemporary dance piece, A Handful of Dust. Arun is an Associate Artist of The Albany, Deptford and of Spitalfields Music 2014, and was Artist in Residence for the Alchemy Festival 2011 at the Southbank.
Prema Mehta Lighting Designer
Prema Mehta works as a Lighting Designer for drama and dance productions. For Kali: Speed and Twelve (Tristan Bates Theatre), Shared Memories and Calcutta Kosher (Arcola). Other theatre includes: The Great Extension (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Snow Queen (Derby Theatre) and The Electric Hills (Liverpool Everyman). Designs for dance include Jugni (UK tour), Maaya (Westminster Hall), Bells (Mayor of London’s Showtime) and Sufi Zen (Royal Festival Hall). Forthcoming designs include OK Tata Tata and The Periera’s Bakery at 76 Chapel Road (Leicester Curve) and Fourteen (Watford Palace). Further details at www.premamehta.com
Sarah Julie Pujol Company Stage Manager
Sarah is a freelance Stage Manager based in London. Recent credits include: Company Stage Manager for Talkback (Kali at Tristan Bates); Stage Manager for Children of Fate by Inside Intelligence (CLF Theatre); Assistant Stage Manager for The Old Woman directed by Robert Wilson (UK, Italy, Greece); Company Stage Manager for XY by Papercut Theatre (Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh); Stage Manager for PEEP by Natural Shocks (Assembly Gardens, Edinburgh); Stage Manager for Equal Writes (Tristan Bates Theatre, London) and Stage Manager for XY by Papercut Theatre (Theatre503, London).
Sam Eccles Technical Stage Manager
Graduated with BA from University of Wales Trinity St David in Theatre Design and Production. At UoW: Fahrenheit 451, Oh What a Lovely War, Holey Matrimony. Sam has spent six years in theatre and events as a freelance Technical Stage Manager and Lighting Designer. For Pentabus: Milked, In This Place, For Once, Blue Sky, Underland, White Open Spaces. Tea Time (Oxford Play House); Venezia the Show (Teatro San Gallo); Dismorphia (Sean Tuan John); Peter Pan (New Vic Theatre): Event Lighting Design: Sheep Music Festival, Hard Rock Café Venice, OysterBand, Flight the Bear.
Luke Child Production Manager
Luke has toured both in the UK and internationally with some of the most commercially successful productions including The Lion King, The King and I, The Rocky Horror Show and Matthew Bourne’s Dorian Gray. One of his proudest achievements was to open a major new theatre in Dublin, where he spent two years dedicated to the venue’s success. Luke is delighted to have the opportunity to work with Kali and Pentabus on The Husbands.
Shobna Gulati Movement
Theatre includes: Dinnerladies (Comedy Theatre tour); Body Gossip (Edinburgh Fringe); Girls Night (National tour); The Vagina Monologues (Mark Goucher); Pretend You Have Big Buildings, Parminder Café Vesuvio (Royal Exchange); Dancing Within Walls, Crazy Lady (Drill Hall/Contact Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Leicester Haymarket); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tara Arts/National tour); How High is Up? (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Moti Roti Puttli Chunni (Stratford East); The Mahabharata (Year of Opera); The Sacred Thread (Royal Festival Hall). TV includes: Sunita in Coronation Street, Anita in Dinnerladies, The Circle (Channel 4), Eastenders. Panellist on Call My Bluff, Have I Got News For You, Loose Women. Film includes BAFTA winning Shadowscan. Also extensive work across the UK as a choreographer and dancer. She has an honorary doctorate from The University of Huddersfield.
Intrepid plays by fearless women
Kali Theatre has been presenting ground-breaking new theatre writing by women with a South Asian background for over twenty years. They seek out and nurture strong individual writers who challenge our perceptions through original and thought-provoking drama, and actively encourage their writers to reinvent and reshape the theatrical agenda.
Their work presents the distinct perspective and experience of South Asian women, engaging people from all backgrounds in work that reflects and comments on our lives today. They have won rave reviews, sold-out shows and inspired audiences all over the UK with work