- Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s first play BEHSHARAM (SHAMELESS) broke box office records when it played at Soho Theatre and the Birmingham Rep in 2001. Her play BEHZTI (DISHONOUR) was sensationally closed in December 2004, after playing to packed houses at the Birmingham Rep. In 2005 BEHZTI won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for the best English language play written by a woman.Other credits include the half hour film DEAD MEAT, produced by Channel 4 as part of the Dogma TV season; MERA DES (MY COUNTRY), a fifty minute play for Radio 3; STITCHED UP (commissioned series for BBC1); HONOUR (single film for BBC2); LIPSTICK AND NAILS (police drama for Great Meadow Productions); THE CLEANER, an hour-long film for BBC1; POUND SHOP BOYS (originally commissioned by October Films/Film Council/Scottish Screen and developed through PAL); PILE UP and THE BRIDE (both commissioned serials for Carlton Television); LONDONEE (Theatre Royal Stratford East – rehearsed reading); TWO OLD LADIES (Leicester Haymarket); over thirty episodes of the BBC World Service Drama Serial – WESTWAY (1999-2001); and nine episodes of EASTENDERS (2001-2005). She studied Modern Languages at Bristol University.
External links
* [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=595095 Profile in "The Independent"]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4109017.stm BBC News Online profile]
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