Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

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Bhatti speaking at the International Conference on Free Expression and Conscience, London, 23 July 2017.

Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti (born in Watford in 1968 or 1969<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>) is a British writer who has written extensively for stage, screen and radio.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her play Behzti (Dishonour) was cancelled by the Birmingham Rep after protests against the play turned violent and alleged death threats forced Bhatti to go into hiding.<ref>Template:Cite news
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Life

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti was born into a working-class Sikh Punjabi family in Watford. She went to Bristol University to study Chemistry but graduated with honours in Modern Languages. Before becoming a full-time playwright and screenwriter, she worked in a hospital laundry and a women’s refuge. She has also been a waitress, actor, workshop leader and a carer.<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/gurpreet-kaur-bhatti-a-warm-sensitive-writer-who-did-not-set-out-to-offend-697225.html</ref>

Work

Bhatti's first play, Behsharam (Shameless), broke box office records at Soho Theatre and Birmingham Rep when it opened in 2001.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2005, Behzti won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for the best English language play written by a woman.<ref name="prizeaward">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}
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In 2010, her follow-up to Behzti titled Behud (Beyond Belief)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> was co-produced by Soho Theatre and Coventry Belgrade and was shortlisted for the John Whiting Award.

In 2014, Khandan (Family) opened at the Birmingham Rep before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In June 2014, her first anthology of plays, Plays One (Template:ISBN), was published by Oberon Books.

Bhatti's other credits include Scenes from Lost Mothers (Clean Break); Silence (Donmar Warehouse); 846 (Theatre Royal Stratford East); A Kind of People (Royal Court Downstairs); Elephant, Birmingham Rep; Dishoom, Rifco/Watford Palace Theatre, Fourteen, Watford Palace Theatre; the feature film Everywhere And Nowhere; DCI Stone, Radio 4; Londonee, Rich Mix; Dead Meat, Channel 4 and An Enemy Of The People, BBC World Service.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She was a core writer on The Archers from 2012-19, part of the team that created the ground breaking ‘Helen and Rob’ domestic violence story.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She has also written for EastEnders and Hollyoaks.

In 2025, her adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera’s Marriage Material will be produced at the Lyric Hammersmith <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and her new play Choir will open at Chichester Festival Theatre.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Awards

  • 2003 Nominated for the Race in the Media Award by the Commission for Racial Equality in the radio music/entertainment category for North East South West.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Asian Women of Achievement awards, nominated twice<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Plays

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  • Khandan (Family) (2014),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • "A Kind of People" (2019). Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre London.
  • "Marriage Material". Adapted from Satnam Sangerha's novel, premiered at the Birmingham Rep and Lyric Hammersmith.

Radio, Films, TV and Teleplays

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