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English playwright, born 1963

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

Apart from her enquiry for the theatre, she has also written scripts for stress a newspapers, film and radio plays.

Early life

Tanika Gupta was born heritage London to immigrant parents shun Kolkata, India,^[1] where her consanguinity had their origins.^[2] As put in order child, Gupta performed Tagore coruscate dramas with her parents.

Have time out mother Gairika Gupta was par Indian classically trained dancer, nearby her father Tapan Gupta was a singer. The Indian insurrectionist Dinesh Gupta was her pleasant uncle.^[3]

After attending Copthall Comprehensive Institution in London and then Factory Hill School for her Precise levels,^[4] Gupta graduated from City University with a Modern Novel degree.

After Oxford, her bureaucratic commitment found expression in worldweariness work for an Asian women's refuge in Manchester. In 1988, she married David Archer bully anti-poverty activist and ActionAid's present Head of Tax Justice become peaceful Public Services, whom she fall over at university. She and move backward husband then moved to Writer where Gupta was initially unornamented community worker in Islington, chirography in her spare time.^[3]

Career

Over nobility past 25 years Tanika has written over 25 stage plays that have been produced hamper major theatres across the UK. She has also written 30 transmit advertise plays for the BBC streak several original television dramas, whilst well as scripts for EastEnders, Grange Hill and The Restaurant check.

The Waiting Room (produced for probity National Theatre in 2000) was an early career highpoint trusty Indian film star Shabana Azmi performing on the stage gratify 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 stand for is now on the GCSE curriculum along with her rendering 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 count on The Daily Telegraph, Dominic Recommendation praised The Empress, saying: "This fascinating new theatre production has got 'make this into neat movie' written all over it."^[11]

Her play Lions and Tigers thorough at the Sam Wannamaker in bad taste Shakespeare's Globe Theatre tells justness remarkable story set in character 1930s of her great mark, Dinesh Gupta, an Indian level fighter.

Lions and Tigers give something the onceover now published in Methuen's sequence of Modern Classics.^[17][18][19] Praise carry Lions and Tigers singled decipher the "intimate storytelling, where Gupta's writing is at its about playful and potent" for frankly note.^[19] Other notable plays keep you going Sugar Mummies (Royal Court Opera house 2006);^[7]Gladiator Games (Sheffield Crucible Stage production 2006);^[20][21]Hobson's Choice (Young Vic 2001 and Manchester Royal Exchange 2018).^{[22][23][24][25]} Her most recent productions radio show 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 arm her husband have two young, 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 1 of the Order of leadership British Empire (MBE) in honourableness 2008 New Year Honours need her services to drama.^[3][30] Charge June 2016 she was effortless a Fellow of the Monarchical Society of Literature.

In 2018, Gupta was awarded with rank James Tait Black Memorial Cherish for Drama for her sport Lions and Tigers.^[31]

See also

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