Gupreet Kaur Bhatti

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti writes for stage, screen and radio.

Her first play Behsharam broke box office records at Soho/Birmingham Rep. Her second play Behzti was sensationally closed after protests at the Rep. It won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Other credits include A Kind of People, Royal Court Downstairs; Choir, Chichester Festival Theatre; Marriage Material, Lyric Hammersmith/Birmingham Rep; Khandan, Royal Court/Birmingham Rep; Behud, Soho/Belgrade; Silence, Donmar Warehouse; 846, Stratford East; Elephant, Birmingham Rep; Dishoom, Rifco/Watford Palace Theatre, Fourteen, Watford Palace; the feature film Everywhere And Nowhere; DCI Stone, Radio 4; Londonee, Rich Mix; Dead Meat, Channel 4 and An Enemy Of The People, BBC.

She is developing original series Masala for Hometeam/Universal, adapting Black & Blue by Parm Sandhu for Cuba Pictures as well as Brando's Bride by Sarah Broughton as a feature for Ffilm Cymru Wales and writing her hit play Scenes for Lost Mothers as a film for Clean Break. She is also developing plays for NT Connections and the Royal Court.

She is a voting member of BAFTA, a trustee of the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and an ambassador for Birth Companions. Her plays are published by Methuen.