Satinder Kaur Chohan

Satinder Kaur Chohan is from Southall, West London and completed her BA in English Language and Literature at King’s College London and her MA at Yale University in the US. A journalist and documentary researcher/assistant producer turned playwright, her plays include Zameen (Kali Theatre national tour 2008), KabaddiKabaddiKabaddi (Pursued By A Bear national tour 2012), 1984 (Vibrant Festival 2014 Finborough Theatre) and Lotus Beauty, a 2016 Sultan Padamsee Award for Playwriting Runner-Up. Satinder received OffWestEnd.com’s 2013 Adopt A Playwright Award to develop Made in India. As Writer-in-Residence at the Centre for Family Research (University of Cambridge), she wrote Half of Me, first performed by Generation Arts in Summer 2016 (Lyric Hammersmith). Half of Me accompanies Made in India at select venues on tour.