Atiha Sen-Gupta (born 1988) is a British playwright and screenwriter. She is writer-in-residence for 2016-2017 at Theatre Royal Stratford East in London, where her play Counting Stars was produced in 2016.The daughter of a journalist and activist Rahila Gupta, Sen Gupta attended Hampstead School in London where she became involved as a teenager with the Hampstead Theatre’s youth company. She studied politics and sociology at Warwick University, graduating in 2012.
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| - Atiha Sen-Gupta (born 1988) is a British playwright and screenwriter. She is writer-in-residence for 2016-2017 at Theatre Royal Stratford East in London, where her play Counting Stars was produced in 2016.The daughter of a journalist and activist Rahila Gupta, Sen Gupta attended Hampstead School in London where she became involved as a teenager with the Hampstead Theatre’s youth company. She studied politics and sociology at Warwick University, graduating in 2012. (en)
- Atiha Sen Gupta (* 1988 in London) ist eine britische Dramatikerin und Drehbuchautorin. Atiha Sen Gupta ist eine Tochter der britisch-indischen Journalistin Rahila Gupta. Sie besuchte die Hampstead School in London. Danach studierte sie Politik und Soziologie an der University of Warwick und schloss ihr Studium 2012 ab. 2014 kam ihr Stück State Red über Rassismus bei der Polizei auf die Bühne des Hampstead Theatre. 2015 folgte das Stück Counting Stars am Theatre Royal Stratford East. (de)
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| - Atiha Sen Gupta (* 1988 in London) ist eine britische Dramatikerin und Drehbuchautorin. Atiha Sen Gupta ist eine Tochter der britisch-indischen Journalistin Rahila Gupta. Sie besuchte die Hampstead School in London. Danach studierte sie Politik und Soziologie an der University of Warwick und schloss ihr Studium 2012 ab. Bereits während ihres Studiums wurde 2009 ihr Debütstück What Fatima Did am Hampstead Theatre uraufgeführt und von der Kritik hoch gelobt. 2011 kam es zur deutschen Erstaufführung durch Mina Salehpour am Schauspiel Hannover. Im Folgejahr gewann das Stück den Jugendstückpreis beim Heidelberger Stückemarkt. Eine Hörspiel-Version des Stücks in deutscher Sprache erschien 2015 (NDR, Regie Heike Tauch) und lief im Folgejahr auf den ARD-Hörspieltagen. 2014 kam ihr Stück State Red über Rassismus bei der Polizei auf die Bühne des Hampstead Theatre. 2015 folgte das Stück Counting Stars am Theatre Royal Stratford East. Neben ihrer Tätigkeit am Theater schreibt sie auch für Fernsehproduktionen. 2009 schrieb sie an einer Episode der Serie Skins – Hautnah mit. Seit 2020 schrieb sie für vier Folgen der britischen Seifenoper EastEnders. (de)
- Atiha Sen-Gupta (born 1988) is a British playwright and screenwriter. She is writer-in-residence for 2016-2017 at Theatre Royal Stratford East in London, where her play Counting Stars was produced in 2016.The daughter of a journalist and activist Rahila Gupta, Sen Gupta attended Hampstead School in London where she became involved as a teenager with the Hampstead Theatre’s youth company. She studied politics and sociology at Warwick University, graduating in 2012. In 2009, when she was just 21, her debut play What Fatima Did premiered at the Hampstead Theatre to critical acclaim. The play was produced in Germany at the Hanseatic State Theater in 2011, and received the Youth Theater Prize at the Heidelberger Stückemarkt festival in the following year. In 2014, her play about police racism, State Red, was produced at the Hampstead Downstairs. She followed up with Counting Stars, about two Nigerian nightclub toilet attendants working in a club in "post-Lee Rigby post-Brexit Woolwich" which played at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015 and on the main stage of the Theatre Royal Stratford East in August–September 2016. As well as theatre, Sen Gupta also writes for television, beginning in 2009 when she co-wrote "Noami", an episode in the third series of Skins. On 23 June 2016, an episode Sen Gupta co-wrote with Katie Douglas aired on BBC One's Holby City. Sen Gupta has worked for several disability advocacy organizations. Her brother Nihal, who had cerebral palsy, died at the age of 17. (en)
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