Artistic Directors
Kristine Landon-Smith
Director / Writer
Kristine is joint founder and Artistic Director of Tamasha and has directed all of the company’s shows.
Her 1996 production, East is East, was nominated for an Olivier award and her original production of Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and A Funeral won the Barclays Theatre Award for Best New Musical. Her production, Strictly Dandia, was a sell-out success at the Lyric Hammersmith in both 2004 and 2005.
Kristine’s freelance credits include directing with the Royal Court Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Palace Theatre Westcliff, Nitro, Yellow Earth Theatre and more recently with the Royal Danish Theatre, where she directed the Con:FUSIONS workshop in Autumn 2005, aimed at developing cultural diversity in Scandinavian theatre.
Her first short film Midnight Feast, was screened at the 11th Raindance Film Festival. Kristine’s radio credits for BBC include A Yearning; Women of the Dust, which won CRE Race in the Media Awards; and an adaptation of Lysistrata by Ranjit Bolt for the BBC World Service.
Most recently, Kristine directed The Trouble with Asian Men at artsdepot and Soho Theatre, A Fine Balance, based on the novel by Rohinton Mistry, at Hampstead Theatre and Tamasha’s first children’s play, Child of the Divide, at Polka Theatre. She is currently working on the remounts of both Child of the Divide and A Fine Balance.
Kristine jointly won, with Sudha Bhuchar, the 2005 Asian Women of Achievement Award for Arts and Culture.
Sudha Bhuchar
Writer / Actor
Sudha is joint founder and Artistic Director of Tamasha, and is both an actor and playwright.
She most recently played Dina Dalal in Tamasha’s A Fine Balance (based on the novel by Rohinton Mistry) at Hampstead Theatre in January 2006.
Her many acting credits include, Murder (BBC) by Abi Morgan, EastEnders (BBC), Doctors (BBC), Holby City (BBC) and Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Royal National Theatre), and she is a regular on the BBC Radio drama Silver Street.
Her writing credits for Tamasha include Balti Kings, Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and A Funeral, Strictly Dandia, in which she also performed, and in May 2006, her first children’s play: Child of the Divide (Polka Theatre).
She writes regularly with Shaheen Khan and their many credits include three series of Girlies for BBC Radio 4 and Balti Kings (the stage play, as well as a six part series for Radio 4). Their screenplay, The House Across the Street, has been shown on BBC4 as part of a new writers initiative, and they have co-written an episode of Doctors for the BBC. Sudha also co-wrote a short film Midnight Feast, which was screened at the 11th Raindance Film Festival.
Sudha jointly won, with Kristine Landon-Smith, the 2005 Asian Women of Achievement Award for Arts and Culture.