Suman Bhuchar
Suman Bhuchar is an associate artist at Bhuchar Boulevard. She began her theatre career at Tara Theatre (formerly Tara Arts) under Jatinder Verma and appeared in many of the community productions.
She has contributed many interviews to www.theatrevoice.com and is currently a Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter University, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
She was an Honorary Fellow at University of Warwick’s British Black and Asian Shakespeare Project & co-curated a Multicultural Shakespeare debate as part of the V&A Festival of Shakespeare. (2014).
Suman Bhuchar’s four decades career spans the theatre and broadcast sector, where she works as a producer, curator, and promoter. Companies include Retake, Tamasha, Kali and Komola Collective.
As Bhuchar Boulevard associate, her Retracing Our Footsteps initiative advocates the setting up of an Asian theatre playwriting archive to share the rich history of the involvement of South Asian artists making theatre in the UK.
Independent documentary credits include: The Journalist & The Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl (HBO, nominated for 2 Emmys); Dead Man Talking: a murder investigation by Hampshire Police (Channel 4) & Alone Together: Portrait of the Singh twins (winner ‘Best film on Art’, Asolo Film Festival 2001).