work
in development
MOO-HA-HA
Longlisted, Full House Literary
SHAME CIRCLE
Longlisted, Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award 2021
Longlisted, BBC Script Room Drama 2020
Longlisted, Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2019
MIKE
Top 20 plays, Papatango New Writing Prize 2019 (as MOGG’S WAR)
theatre
THE GLASS WILL SHATTER
Omnibus Theatre, dir. Lilac Yosiphon, 2020
Rebecca still has nightmares about Amina and the unnerving events that unfolded in her classroom.
Through a series of flashbacks to the classroom, we see how a sequence of misguided decisions leads to an incident which sends shockwaves through both their lives.
Taking aim at the controversial Prevent strategy, as well as at an ever-deteriorating teaching crisis, The Glass Will Shatter is an urgent commentary on the UK’s politics of fear in action, the devastation of individual lives that results, and the potentially disastrous long-term effects on our society.
First produced by Althea Theatre and performed at Omnibus Theatre, 21 January to 8 February 2020.
WE STRUGGLE
Finborough Theatre Vibrant Festival, dir. Oscar Toeman, 2017
A grey summer’s day in East London. Jihad is a man on the edge. He has lost his job and his girlfriend Abida has left him in mysterious and sinister circumstances.
Heartbroken and directionless, he defecates on the floor of his local Tesco superstore, steals a kitchen knife from its shelves, and over the hours that ensue has a series of encounters with friends, family and strangers as he forges a dark path forward. These encounters are interspersed with flashbacks to his ill-fated relationship with Abida, as their story of shattered hopes, insecurity and radicalisation unfolds, pointing towards the day’s extraordinary climax.
Bold and uncompromising, We Struggle is an urgent exploration of how life in our broken city is pushing people to extremes.
First performed at Finborough Theatre as part of the Vibrant Festival of New Writing, 26 October 2017.
shorts / r&d
SILENT GENERATION, Strike Up Theatre, dir. Rachel Mary, 2019
BLOODY PALMS, Theatre 503, Rapid Write Response, dir. Camila Gonzalez, 2019
THURSDAY, Southwark Playhouse / Little Pieces of Gold, dir. Simon Paris, 2018
MOGG’S WAR, Old Red Lion / Althea Theatre, dir. Kevin Williams, 2018
SAFE SPACE, Theatre 503, Rapid Write Response, dir. Ioana Batis, 2017
IT ARRIVES AS YOUR FRIEND, RBL Theatre, dir. Benedict Sandiford, 2017
NATIONAL MOURNING, Theatre 503, Rapid Write Response, dir. Kevin Williams, 2017
BLACK JULY, Theatre 503 / Equity South London, dir. Tom Latter, 2014