Native name হাসিনা মমতাজ Name Tanika Gupta Movies Flight, The Fiancee Alma mater Oxford University Education University of Oxford | Ethnicity Bengali Spouse David Archer (m. 1988) Nationality British Role Playwright | |
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Born 1 December 1963 (age 60) ( 1963-12-01 ) Chiswick, Hounslow, London, England Residence Kentish Town, London, England Occupation Playwright, screenwriter Children Nandini Gupta, Niharika Gupta, Malini Gupta Parents Gairika Gupta, Tapan Gupta Books Sugar mummies, Gladiator Games, White boy, Mind Walking, Meet the Mukherjees | ||
Tanika gupta interview the empress royal shakespeare company
Tanika Gupta, MBE (Bengali: হাসিনা মমতাজ; born 1 December 1963) is an English playwright of Bengali descent. Apart from her work for the theatre, she has also written scripts for television and radio plays.
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- Tanika gupta interview the empress royal shakespeare company
- Early life
- Career
- Awards and recognition
- Awards
- Personal life
- References
Early life
As a child, Gupta performed Tagore dance dramas with her parents. Her mother Gairika Gupta was an Indian classically trained dancer, and her father Tapan Gupta was a singer. She is also related to the Indian revolutionary Dinesh Gupta, whose brother was Tanika's grandfather.
After attending Mill Hill School in London, Gupta graduated from Oxford University with a Modern History degree. After Oxford, her political commitment found expression in her work for an Asian women's refuge in Manchester. In 1988, she married David Archer an anti-poverty activist and ActionAid’s current Head of Programme Development, whom she met at university. She and her husband then moved to London where Gupta was a community worker in Islington, writing in her spare time.
Career
The Waiting Room (2000) was a career highpoint, enjoyed by blue-rinses as well as by Asian audiences. Gupta is rumoured to be writing a new play for Birmingham Repertory Theatre's Youth Theatre, The Young REP, to be performed in June 2009. She is currently writing a play for the Young Rep, for a group called Plays and New Writing. In 2013, her play The Empress, about Abdul Karim and Queen Victoria opened in Stratford upon Avon.
For the BBC's Grange Hill series, Gupta wrote seven episodes between 1997 and 2000.
Awards and recognition
In 2008, Gupta was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours for her services to drama. In June 2016 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Awards
Personal life
Gupta and her husband have three daughters, Nandini (born 1991), Niharika (born 1993) and Malini (born 2000).