Sumerah is a British, South Asian screenwriter and playwright. She was most recently a writer on ITV’s The Good Karma Hospital, and before that wrote on Netflix’s Lupin as well as Messiah. She has also written for BBC’s two longest running and beloved dramas, Casualty and EastEnders. As a playwright, she has been a member of the Royal Court’s Critical Mass and invited Studio Writers’ programmes, Stratford East’s Musical Theatre Initiative, Orange Tree Writers Collective and The Criterion playwright programme.

Prior to her television career, Sumerah launched and ran an award-winning commercial radio station targeting London’s Asian youth audiences (Club Asia) for which she won numerous awards including a Women in Public Life award and an Asian Woman of Achievement award. Sumerah is a member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain, the Royal Television Society, Women in Film & TV and Mercury Musical Developments.