Ruth D’Silva (she/her) is an emerging working-class, Anglo-Indian writer living in South London. As a person of dual heritage her blood runs with the colonised and the colonizer giving her a unique drive to bring people together and contemplate how a difficult colonial history affects us today in our daily lives through the lens of drama.

Her play Bungalow ran at Theatre503 in March 2025 , a magically realistic and comic production asking the tough question “How to do you care for the elderly parent who used to abuse you?” It was funded by the Arts Council of England. Ruth won a MGCfutures bursary to adapt the classic colonial novel Black Narcissus in which she flips the perspective from the colonisers to the colonised. The development of the play is supported by Donmar Warehouse, Stratford East and the National Theatre.

Ruth was selected for the 2024 Kay Mellor screenwriting cohort and was among three writers from the group chosen to be showcased at Somerset House this year. Ruth was also shortlisted for the RSC 37 Plays Folio and is an alumni of the Royal Court Intro to Playwriting group, Soho Theatre Labs and School of High Tide.