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Collaborating on The Cord: Dr Jess Heron & Bijan Sheibani

Thu 25 Apr 2024 | Our Plays, The Bigger Picture

Dr Jess Heron, founder and CEO of National perinatal mental health charity, Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP), and acclaimed writer and director, Bijan Sheibani, collaborated on research for his new play The Cord, that follows a family struggling to navigate the postpartum period. “APP, which began as a research panel, now supports women and families…

BUSHCYLING: How we’re improving our sustainability, one stage set at a time

Thu 23 Nov 2023 | Our Plays, The Bigger Picture

When you watch a new show at the Bush, you’re seeing a brand new set every time… or are you?  Putting on a production can use a lot of resources: from energy for lights to purchasing costumes and furniture to the timber needed to build sets and scenery, so we try to reuse materials as…

“I keep coming back to sex and death – but, you know, in a fun way.” Meet Marcelo Dos Santos

Thu 02 Nov 2023 | Our People, Playwriting

With a day to go until Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen bursts onto our stage, we caught up with writer Marcelo Dos Santos to get the inside scoop on his inspirations for the play and how it feels to, as he says, “put it all out there”. “I’m inspired by…

Nikhil Parmar

Mon 21 Sep 2020 |

Nikhil Parmar is an actor and writer from Manchester. He studied History at the London School of Economics before starting his acting career in 2016. His credits include three seasons of Trollied (Sky One), After Life (Netflix), This Way Up (C4/Hulu), Brassic (Sky One), and Traitors (C4/Netflix).
As a writer, last year he graduated from Emmy-winner Andy Riley’s mentorship scheme for emerging comedy writers and shortly thereafter got an Additional Material credit on C4’s sitcom pilot Brad Boyz, in which he also starred. He recently completed a script commission based on an original half-hour comedy format for DNA Films & TV, and has other original series in development at Baby Cow Productions and SunnyMarch TV.
‘invisible’ is his debut play.