Tamasha is a British theatre company founded in 1989 by director Kristine Landon-Smith and actor / writer Sudha Bhuchar with a mission to bring contemporary drama of Asian influence to the British stage.
The company is best known for its award-winning 1996 comedy East is East as well as Balti Kings and Bollywood-inspired musicals Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral and Wuthering Heights.
Among the many well-known British Asian artists to have worked with the company are actors Parminder Nagra, Jimi Mistry, Nina Wadia, Chris Bisson, Ameet Chana, Nabil Elouahabi, Ila Arun and Zohra Sehgal; writers Ayub Khan-Din, Abhijat Joshi and Deepak Verma; and composers Shri and Nitin Sawhney.
Since 2002, the company has run Tamasha Developing Artists - a professional development programme for emerging and established writers, directors, designers and performers.