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Artistic Director

Sudha Bhuchar

Sudha is a graduate from Roehampton Institute with a BA in Maths/Sociology. An unlikely theatre maker, it was a chance encounter with Jatinder Verma and Tara Arts at a Diwali function as a teenager that changed the course of her life. Making theatre about and for their communities enabled Sudha and other young British Asians to navigate their lives as second-generation immigrants and has remained a sustaining impetus. It was at Tara that Sudha and Kristine Landon-Smith met as actors and co-founded Tamasha in 1989.

Their landmark work together includes an adaptation of Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance, Strictly Dandia &the award-winning musical Fourteen Songs Two Weddings and a Funeral.  Sudha’s other plays for Tamasha 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). Sudha’s writing with actor Shaheen Khan includes Balti Kings (Tamasha, adapted for a Radio 4 series and recently transposed to Sydney as The Curry Kings of Parrammatta), Doctors (BBC) and three series of Girlies (Radio 4). Her play small fish big cheese was for Unicorn theatre’s Class Acts Festival 2011.

Sudha’s recent commissions are: Touchstone Tales (RevolutonArts/Wellcome Collection), French like Faiza (Radio3 cowritten with Ilana Navaro) and A Final Farewell (Tara Theatre). She wrote and currently performs her one woman show, Evening Conversations.

Theatre acting credits include Gurpreet Bhatii’s Khandan (Royal Court /Birmingham Rep), The Village by April de Angelis (Theatre Royal Stratford East) and Tanika Gupta’s Lions and Tigers (Globe Theatre). Recent TV includes: Coronation street (ITV), Stella (Sky) & Noughts and Crosses (BBC). 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 Into Dust (Amazon Prime).

Sudha has worked extensively on Radio - narrating 4 Book at Bedtime novels including Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers, she was in Amna Saleem’s sitcom Beta Female, a regular on BBC Asian Network’s Silver St and was the original Usha Gupta in The Archers.

As dramaturg and mentor, Sudha often works with writers in their early career- Most recently Nyla Levy on Does my bomb look big in this? (Tamasha), Tuyen Do on Summer rolls (Van Thanh productions) and Dorcas Seb on Buttercup (20 stories high/BBC)

As a freelance teacher/ workshop leader, companies she has worked with include Cardboard Citizens, East 15, RADA, New Earth, Pop up theatre/The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and Cultural Ecology Project in Bradford.

Sudha was a finalist as Best Actress 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).  Other Awards jointly with Kristine include: Eastern Eye ACTA (2019), Asian Women of achievement (2005) and First Women (2010)-for their significant contribution to the Arts.

Sudha is a trustee of Independent Cinema Office and Actors Touring Company

Associate

Suman Bhuchar

Suman Bhuchar is a cultural multipreneur and works as a producer, curator and promoter in the theatre and broadcast sectors. She has contributed significantly to the cultural landscape of UK, adding value to any project she is involved with in a quest to amplify the voices of artists of colour, enabling them to tell their own stories with agency, and shape the discourse around how they are presented and to whom.

Like Sudha, it was Jatinder Verma and Tara Arts which ignited a lifelong passion for theatre and a desire to tell stories from the South Asian lens. Suman began as an actor but when asked to enact a ‘hoover’ in a drama workshop, she had an epiphany that this was not her calling. Her passion for theatre led her to work as press and marketing consultant at Tamasha (1989 to 2002 ) where she was at the forefront of building unique strategies to attract multiple and diverse audiences for the company’s work, including  East is East, Balti Kings, Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings & A Funeral.

Other credits include: A Taste for Mangoes (Tara-Arts); Calcutta Kosher (Kali Theatre); Midnight’s Children (RSC); Bombay Dreams (Really Useful Group), East is East revival (Jamie Lloyd productions) & Bring on the Bollywood (phizzical.com).

Alongside her Press and marketing, Suman worked in the film and television sector. At Retake Film & Video Workshop, UK’s only Asian franchised workshop, she curated and programmed courses in Indian and world cinema and learnt film production. She went on to work in cutting edge documentaries on the independent circuit.  Credits include: The Journalist & The Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl (HBO, nominated for 2 Emmys); Dead Man Talking: a murder investigation by Hampshire Police (Channel 4) & Alone Together: Portrait of the now famous Singh twins (winner ‘Best film on Art’, Asolo Film Festival 2001) 

Suman was a co-producer on  Lights, Camera-Akshun (Culturewise Productions for Radio 4, 2013), which looked at the collaboration between India and UK during the silent film era. She has contributed many interviews to theatrevoice.com, V&A’s audio resource for British theatre, was an Honorary Fellow at University of Warwick’s British Black and Asian Shakespeare Project & co-curated a Multicultural Shakespeare debate as part of the V&A Festival of Shakespeare. (2014).

She has also contributed to Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture edited by Alison Donnell (Routledge 2002) & Critical Essays on British South Asian Theatre, edited by Graham Ley & Sarah Dadswell (University of Exeter Press, 2012). Her editorials on Asian arts have appeared in The Herald, Glasgow, The Telegraph, Calcutta and Mid-day, Mumbai, Asian Woman & Movie magazines, and she is a regular contributor to asian culture vulture. 

Suman speaks at/curates seminars on Asian arts and popular Hindi cinema and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts 

As Bhuchar Boulevard Associate she initiated and produced Decolonisation: not just a buzzword... , curated Retracing Our Footsteps & supported the marketing/comms and education/ wrap around work on Child of the Divide 2017 tour. 

Alongside her arts projects, Suman currently works at Southall Black Sisters, running support groups for victims of domestic violence and in administration.