NOVA Shortlist Announced

9 October 2024

Tara Theatre are thrilled to present our shortlist for NOVA. We received an overwhelming number of remarkable submissions for our seed commission, and we want to thank every single playwright who took to time to submit their work to our team to read.

The quality was astonishingly high this year and we’re overjoyed to see so many phenomenal playwrights sharing their work with us. Every writer should be immensely proud of their work.

As our flagship new writing programme, NOVA is an open call to uncover fresh South Asian writing talent. Those selected will receive a commission worth £1,500 as well as mentoring and dramaturgical support, resulting in a public performance of their work produced by a professional team.

Senior Producer Neena Shea comments “We are very excited to meet the shortlisted writers in their interviews next week. The quality of work is so high, well done to everyone for getting this far.”

Following interviews with the shortlisted writers, our Artistic Director Natasha Kathi-Chandra will make the final decision on our NOVA 2024 seed commissions. Our finalists will then be announced later this month.

The full shortlist of playwrights for NOVA 2024 can be found below.

NOVA 2024 Shortlist

Nikita Aashi Chadha

Amin Ali

Anjeli Chapman Wolf

Rea Dennhardt Patel

Gurjot Dhaliwal

Zahra Jassi

Nicole Latchana

Isobel Mascarenhas-Whitman

Ayan Philip

Sid Sagar

Sajani

Dan Sareen

Neetu Singh

Pooja Sivaraman

Nusrath Tapadar

Dilan Tulsiani

Kaya Uppal