Afsaneh Gray is a playwright, short-story writer and librettist. She was part of the Young Writer’s Programme at the Soho Theatre and completed the Iso Mentorship Scheme. Previous work has been shown at the Riverside Studios, Theatre 503, Hampstead Theatre and the Old Red Lion. As Associate Artist with IsoProductions she has written for several site-responsive productions, including Shepperton Road (Rosemary Branch) and rather than words comes the thought of high windows (Market Estate Demolition Event). She is currently working on a full-length play, Lucretia: chambermaid (workshopped by Threepenny Theatre; up-coming workshop with the RSC ensemble, Stratford) and the text for an opera (in collaboration with Erick Flores, Royal College of Music). Afsaneh was recently shortlisted for the EEA Writer’s Award and the Euroscript Screen Story Competition.
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Carissa Hope Lynch
Carissa Hope Lynch is an interdisciplinary theatre artist from Manila by way of San Francisco specialising in direction, dramaturgy and drama facilitation. Recent collaborations include: The Girl Who... (Kazzum Theatre); Crossing into Yesterday (Drake Music and FurtherField); The Iron Man (GDiF and Brighton Festival); Reasons to be Cheerful (Graeae and New Wolsey, National Tour), Cracking (New Wimbledon Theatre Studio, IsoProductions); A Maori Oral History (Border Crossings); Shepperton Road (IsoProductions, Rosemary Branch). With a Master’s from the Central School of Speech and Drama, Carissa has delivered research papers at Theatre Applications and TaPRA. Her photographic essay The Bal Basera Project was recently published in RiDE, and she is co-writing a book chapter with Jenny Sealey for Identity, Performance and Technology. In her spare time Carissa enjoys playing with toy cameras and making a mess in the kitchen.
Omar El-Khairy
Omar El-Khairy is a writer for stage and screen. He was part of the Young Writers' Programmes at both the Royal Court and Soho Theatre. His first full-length play, Given the Times, was commissioned for a rehearsed reading at the Finborough Theatre as part of their Vibrant Festival. He was also commissioned by Soho Theatre to develop their first online distributed narrative (Project X), and is a fellow of the T. S. Eliot UK/US Exchange. Other collaborations include Theatre 503, the Arcola, the Lyric and the Unicorn. He is currently working on a new full-length play, Soft Sand, and his short film, Tunnels, is in production with Idioms Film in the West Bank.
Tanya Singh
Tanya Singh is an interdisciplinary artist, working across new writing, performance and moving image. In addition to her projects with Paper Tiger, her previous work has been shown at the Burton-Taylor Theatre, Old Fire Station, Oxford Playhouse, ICA, East End Film Festival, Channel 4 (Stranger, a 3-Minute Wonder), V&A Museum, Laban, Southwark Playhouse and Soho Theatre. She has worked in film production (IMDB) and artists moving image exhibition, and most recently was a long-term filmmaker-in-residence at Mulberry School for Girls and an Associate Artist with Tamasha Theatre Company. Alongside her current theatre-based projects, Echo and Taranis, she is developing a feature-length screenplay adaptation of Rana Dasgupta’s short story ‘The Memory Editor’ (Tokyo Cancelled) and a short film called Thomas.