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Satinder Chohan

SATINDER CHOHAN

  
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Berlin Associates  represented by Alexandra Cory

Satinder Kaur Chohan is a journalist turned playwright who grew up in Southall and graduated with an MA in English from Yale University. In 2013 she received the Adopt A Playwright Award to develop her play MOTHER INDIA. The play received a rehearsed reading at the Theatre Royal Haymarket and is now in development with Tamasha Theatre Company. Her play 1984 was performed as part of The Finborough Theatre's Vibrant Festival 2014 and has received further development funding from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and Arts Council England. The Peggy Ramsay Foundation is also supporting the development of her play LOTUS BEAUTY and she is currently under commission to write a play on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict for Two Sheds Theatre Company. Satinder has received various play commissions for UK tours including ZAMEEN with Kali Theatre Company in 2008 and KABADDI-KABADDI-KABADDI with Pursued By A Bear Productions in 2012. She was also commissioned to write the Hampstead Theatre's youth company show CROSSING THE LINE for Heat & Light in 2010. Satinder has completed the Emerging Writer's Residency at the Traverse Theatre, won the Kali Futures Writer Award and was on attachment at the Hampstead Theatre in 2010. She is currently developing a number of film, theatre and radio projects

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         1984         Come To Where I'm From         Crossing The Line         Golden Quad, The         In The Further Soil         Incendiary         KabbadiKabbadiKabbadi         Lotus Beauty         Made In India         Mother India         Twelve         Water When it Burns, The         Zameen

1984

Synopsis:
1984. England. Seventeen-year-old Liverpool fan Tarno is coming of age to the beats of bhangra and Madonna, the miners' strike and the Sikh independence struggle in India. Dad supports the pro-Khalistanis, one brother fights the National Front after school, the other wants a flash Ford Cortina, while Mum arranges his marriage to a Punjabi village girl, nagging Tarno to make chapattis. Seeking her own truth and freedom in worlds under siege, Tarno has to kick against the men at home ? and Maggie Thatcher and Indira Gandhi outside. In a play about youthful idealism, faith and belief, if you can't trust those in power, who can you trust?

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20 November 2014 Full Rehearsed Reading, directed by Chris White, Finborough Theatre, London, Vibrant Festival

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Manchester, Palace Theatre     14 Oct 2015

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Come To Where I'm From

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Since 2010, more than 100 writers from across the UK have returned to their home towns to pen plays about the places that shaped them.

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Crossing The Line

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About twenty-something Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean

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1st Produced:
Hampstead Youth Theatre, London     Dec 2010

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Heat & Light

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Golden Quad, The

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Commission, Sampad, Birmingham     Sep 2010

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In The Further Soil

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Commission, Sampad, Birmingham     Sep 2010

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Incendiary

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Writer on 'Incendiary', directed by Annie George, Scratch Performance

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KabbadiKabbadiKabbadi

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The game of Kabaddi crosses borders and generations in this compelling story of the struggle to win. In 1936, three players wrestle for love and gold in the red sands of occupied India; in London 2012 their descendants do battle to survive. But can they ever escape the raids of the past?

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Lotus Beauty

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about women in British Asian suburbia, set in a beauty salon.

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Propeller Showcase (Tamasha Theatre Company)

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Made In India

Made In India
In a surrogacy clinic in Gujarat, three women meet. Its Londoner Evas last chance for motherhood. For village girl Aditi, surrogacy is a lifeline out of poverty. For clinic owner and businesswoman Dr Gupta, its all just another transaction. But with the backdrop of profound global forces, can it possibly remain that simple?

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Mother India

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Set in a fertility clinic in Gujarat, India's 'rent-awomb' capital of the world for wealthy women of the West, the play starts when Aditi and Eva meet. One driven by financial necessity, the other driven by the desire to be a mother. Set on the fault lines of profound global forces, can it possibly remain that simple? Satinder wants this to be a play "about motherhood, bodies and blood ties between women and nations in a brave new 21st century world".

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1st Produced:
Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road London E1 6LA     Apr 2015

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Tamasha Theatre Company scratch night

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Twelve

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Twelve touching and sometimes humorous monologues inspired by true stories about friendship, first love, defiance, death and survival. Twelve is a creative response to the shocking statistic that on average twelve women are killed in the UK every year by family members in so-called 'honour based violence'. Twelve writers have created a unique theatre event to highlight this all-too-common issue and to give a voice to those who have tragically lost their lives. The stories are interwoven with modern dance, expressing the freedom of the women's spirit and the conflict between cultural tradition and modernity.

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Written by Sonali Bhattacharyya, Sharmila Chauhan, Satinder Chohan, Azma Dar, Tanika Gupta, Bettina Gracias, Sayan Kent, Yasmeen Khan, Anu Kumar, Amber Lone, Nessah Muthy and Yasmin Whittaker-Khan. Inspired by True Stories

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Kali Theatre

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Water When it Burns, The

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, Hampstead Group Play/Daring Pairings Festival,

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Zameen

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In the cotton fields of Punjab, Baba, an ageing farmer tends to his crop and pins his hopes of prosperity on GM seeds and Western pesticides. His feckless son, Dhani, full of frustrated ambition, dreams of going to America. His more dutiful daughter, Chandni is torn between staying on the land she loves and facing poverty or following the man she adores to a more prosperous life abroad. . . the final reckoning on Baba's land draws out painful truths and forces the family to the brink of collapse in a fast changing world rapidly losing its values. This beautifully written and moving new play tells of the disastrous environmental damage and the devastating effect on real human lives triggered when the forces of nature, tradition and globalisation collide. This topical and timely work explores the human reality of a major global issue that will ultimately affect us all.

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Zameen was first developed and given a public reading through Kali Futures, our new writing development programme. We mounted a workshop production at Soho theatre in November 2006 where it received an enthusiastic response and sold out its short run. After further development, Kali presented an extract at Arts Council England's Decibel Showcase.

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UK Tour     2008

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Kali Theatre

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