Associate Artists

	Krystal Banzon We are thrilled to be working in collaboration with Associate Artists including New York City based theatre artist and director, Krystal Banzon. Krystal graduated with a BA in Government and Women’s Studies from Smith College, and an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications, focusing on performance and technology/new media from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She produced a strand of the Small Lives, Global Ties Gallery, commissioning six international artists to create work that connects our small lives to a larger one.
	Kuldip Powar Kuldip Powar is an award winning film director who has worked on various film projects exploring the British South Asian experience. He collaborated with Nitin Sawhney and Goldmiths University on his film Unravelling - a journey into war, memory and loss. Other projects include Kabhie Ritz Kabhie Palladium, Remembrance and For The Record - The Social Life of Indian Vinyl In Southall. He has contributed several video works to the Small Lives, Global Ties Gallery, and is co-leading the Small Lives Global Ties Writers Group with writer and performance poet Avaes Mohammad.
	Fin Kennedy Fin Kennedy is an award-winning playwright who specialises in working with London’s inner city communities. His play How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found won the 2006 John Whiting Award. Fin writes regularly for teenagers; Locked In and We Are Shadows were toured nationally by Half Moon Theatre. Since 2007 Fin has been writer-in-residence at Mulberry School in Tower Hamlets, where he is co-founder of Mulberry Theatre Company. All four of Fin’s plays for Mulberry were published this year in The Urban Girl’s Guide To Camping and Other Plays, Nick Hern Books’ first ever volume of work created by a writer embedded in an urban school. Along with Tanya Singh, he led the Mulberry School Writers' Attachment Scheme.
	Tanya Singh Tanya Singh is an interdisciplinary artist working across new writing, performance and moving image and currently a filmmaker-in-residence at Mulberry School for Girls. She worked as an assistant curator in artists’ moving image (LUX, no.w.here, Tate Modern), an assistant director (Slumdog Millionaire, Shifty, Cooking with Stella, Island) and a music promo editor (Warp Records). Her video work has been screened at the ICA, East End Film Festival and on Channel 4 (Stranger) and her theatre-based work performed at Laban, CSSD, Hampstead Theatre, the Market Estate Project, Southwark Playhouse and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Along with Fin Kennedy, she led the Mulberry School Writers' Attachment Scheme.
	Avaes Mohammad Avaes Mohammad is an established playwright, poet and performer. In 2005 he was recipient of the Amnesty International Media Award for his poem Bhopal, broadcast as part of the BBC’s commemoration of the Bhopal gas disaster. Works for theatre have included In God We Trust and Shadow Companion. He has also written Bora Bistrah for Radio 3, as well as the BBC co-produced short film Take It Slow. Avaes participated in the Tamasha New Writing course, is co-leading the Small Lives Global Ties Writers Group, and is currently under full commission for Tamasha, having had his play Zindabad showcased as part of the Propeller festival.

Artist Commissions

As part of our forthcoming theatre-circus production The Arrival, Tamasha is commissioning different artists in the years leading up to the show. Each commission will result in a standalone piece inspired by themes of migration which can add layers of material and interpretation to the show in development.

Anxiety from A to B The first commission is an 18-minute sound installation by Oswaldo Macia with Juan Toledo. The starting point of the work was four workshops carried out in different London boroughs, where ideas about migration, its advantages – politically, economically and culturally - and downfalls plus its visible and not so visible effects in society were discussed. Anxiety from A to B echoes the human perspective present in the migrating journeys completed by so many of us. In many cases, these are journeys of epic proportions, full of danger and uncertainty; and always charged with a sense of anticipation and foreboding.  View the project ›

Finding a Voice The second commission was awarded to BAFTA and Emmy award-winning filmmaker Sheila Hayman. Sheila's commission, saw her run workshops with Write for Life participants and other groups which led to a short documentary film. Kristine worked with participants over two of the sessions and Sheila's resulting film looks at how Tamasha's intracultural practice can be used outside the rehearsal room to give confidence to writers keen to perform their own work to more accurately reflect the true nature of their experiences.  View the project ›