Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti


Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti is a British Sikh writer. She has written extensively for stage, screen and radio. Her play Behzti was cancelled by the Birmingham Rep after peaceful protests by Sikhs turned violent against the play and alleged death threats forced Bhatti to go into hiding.

Life

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s first play Behsharam broke box office records when it played at Soho Theatre and the Birmingham Rep in 2001.
In 2005 Behzti won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for the best English language play written by a woman. In 2006 Behzti was translated into French and did sell-out tours in France and Belgium. Behzti was translated into Italian in 2012 and was performed in Bari, Italy.
In 2010 her follow-up to Behzti titled Behud was co-produced by Soho Theatre and Coventry Belgrade and shortlisted for the John Whiting Award.
In 2014, Khandan opened to sell out audiences at the Birmingham Rep and the Royal Court Theatre.
In June 2014, her first anthology of plays - Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti : PLAYS ONE, was published by Oberon Books.
She is now working on a stage commission for the National Theatre. Gurpreet also regularly writes for The Archers, the Radio 4 drama serial.

Awards

Plays