Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti writes for stage, screen and radio.

Her first play Behsharam broke box office records at Soho/Birmingham Rep. Her second play Behzti was sensationally closed after protests and won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Other credits include A Kind of People (Royal Court Downstairs); Khandan (Royal Court/The Rep); Behud (Soho/Coventry Belgrade); 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).

She was a core writer on The Archers from 2012-19, part of the team that created the groundbreaking ‘Helen and Rob’ domestic violence story.

Her first collection of plays, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti: PLAYS ONE, is published by Bloomsbury.

She is currently developing original series Masala for Hometeam/Universal, The Tutor for Moonage Pictures, adapting Black & Blue by Parm Sandhu for Cuba Pictures as well as Brando’s Bride by Sarah Broughton as a feature for Martha Stone Productions/Ffilm Cymru Wales.

She is also adapting Sathnam Sanghera’s Marriage Material for the stage and writing plays for the National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Tara Theatre and Clean Break.