Ishy Din’s theatre work includes Approaching Empty (Kiln Theatre, Tamasha, Live Theatre and UK tour), Snookered (Tamasha, Oldham Coliseum and Bush Theatre) and Beats North (Edinburgh Fringe). He was the 2012 Pearson Writer in Residence at the Manchester Royal Exchange and in 2013 Snookered won Best New Play at the Manchester Theatre Awards. For television, his work includes Atomic Bazaar, Phoenix Park, Hollyoaks, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Ackley Bridge, Taxi Tales and Doughnuts; for film, Fraud, Perfume and Our Lad; and for radio John Barnes Saved My Life.