Sudha Bhuchar

Sudha is an acclaimed actor/playwright/founder of Bhuchar Boulevard. As co-founder of Tamasha, with Kristine Landon-Smith, their landmark work includes A Fine Balance &the award-winning musical Fourteen Songs Two Weddings and a Funeral. Other plays include Child of the Divide (Time out No1 show families 2006/ Winner Asian media awards 2018), My Name is…. (also adapted for Radio 4) & The House of Bilquis Bibi (Lorca’s The House of Bernada Alba transposed to Pakistan). Recent commissions: Touchstone Tales (RevolutonArts/Wellcome Collection) & French like Faiza (Radio3 cowritten with Ilana Navaro). Sudha has written and is appearing in her one woman show, Evening Conversations.

Acting credits include Khandan (Royal court /Birmingham Rep), The Village (Theatre Royal Stratford East) and Lions and Tigers (Globe Theatre). Tv includes: Coronation street, Stella & Noughts and Crosses. Film: Riz Ahmed and Bassam Tariq’s Mogul Mowgli, Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns, Ben Wheatley’s Happy New Year Colin Burstead and Orlando von Einsiedel’s upcoming,Into Dust.

Sudha was a finalist for BBC Radio 4’s Audio drama awards (2019) for My Son the Doctor (co- written with Saleyha Ahsan) and was awarded Tongues on Fire’s Flame Award (2018) & Eastern Eye’s ACTA award (2019) for her significant contribution to the Arts.

As dramaturg, Sudha recently worked with Nyla Levy on Does my bomb look big in this? and Tuyen Do on Summer rolls.

Sudha is the writer of Final Farewell (Tara Arts July 21), a reflective and collaborative piece honouring the losses people have experienced during Covid. It is a ‘coming home’ for Sudha as Tara is where she began her creative life journey as a teenager.