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Guleraana Mir is an award winning writer, theatre maker and one half of female led theatre company, The Thelmas. She tells emotionally authentic stories that celebrate not stereotype, and speak to complex social realities in a fresh and disruptive way.
Her work involves professional writing for stage & screen, developing new work through devising and writing with young people and community groups, and supporting individuals and organisations to overcome barriers to creativity in order to develop their ideas & vision.
Guleraana’s practice is heavily influenced by the work of Augusto Boal and centres themes of social justice in unexpected ways. She leads writing programmes for artists of all ages at a number of institutions, and is a visiting practitioner at Central School of Speech and Drama. Creating theatre with young people makes her heart sing. She sits on the Equality & Diversity Committee and has worked with the Disability Working Group for WGGB, and is a trustee for The Habbit Factory – an inclusive arts charity.
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SCREEN
At What Cost? BBC Doctors (Series 24, ep 252). 2nd October, 2024. Directed by Kirsty Robinson-Ward.
Take A Chance On Me, BBC Doctors (Series 24, ep 107). 10th October, 2023. Directed by David Lewis Richardson.
The Testing Place, BBC Doctors (Series 24, ep 50). 20th April, 2023. Directed by Kirsty Robinson-Ward.
All The Small Things. Short commissioned by BBC Children’s in-house for Sparks: New Voices, New Stories. Directed by Raisah Ahmed. Watch on BBC iPlayer
PLAYWRITING
Santi & Naz (co-writer). Soho Theatre January 21st-February 8th 2025, National tour autumn 2024, Pleasance Courtyard 2023, VAULT Festival 2020. Directed by Madelaine Moore, produced by The Thelmas & Pleasance. Winner of the Charlie Hartill Award 2023 & Origins Award VAULT Festival 2020
Misfits (co-writer). Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, 2020. Directed by Douglas Rintoul & Emma Baggot. Recipient of an Oncomm Commendation
Coconut. Ovalhouse & national tour April-June 2018. Directed by Madeline Moore, co-produced by Ovalhouse and The Thelmas
COMMUNITY & YOUTH PRODUCTIONS
Here We Are, Old Vic. An original play commissioned in 2024 for upcoming primary school tours.
here, here, here, Theatre Royal Stratford East Young Company, July 2023. Directed by Katie Greenall
Beyond Lockdown, Tara Theatre, 2021. Scripted from devised work created as part of a workshop process with director Natasha Kathi-Chandra
WE’RE JUST GETTING STARTED, Royal Exchange Theatre Young Company, 2019. Scripted from devised work created as part of a workshop process with director Kate Colgrave-Pope
Mano’s, Mulberry School & RichMix, 2018. Original script written following a series of research workshops. Directed by Mina Barber.
AUDIO
The Bigger Picture. Commissioned by SOAS, University of London and Tamasha as part of Decolonising History 2019. Listen here.
Make Noise. Commissioned by Peer Productions. 2018. Listen here.
Vigilante Quartet:Hate. Commissioned by What Noise Productions. 2016.
UPCOMING & IN DEVELOPMENT
Fiza Comes Home. A fresh perspective on the post-break up journey to self-love told through gig-theatre. Originally commissioned by Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch.
I Am The Ghost of Qandeel Baloch. A play about how we talk about honour violence, inspired by the murder of Pakistani celebrity Qandeel Baloch. Originally seed commissioned by Sphinx Theatre. Further development supported by Birmingham Hippodrome, HighTide, Genesis Kickstart Fund 2022 & Peggy Ramsay Foundation – staged reading December 2024.
Lahori Nights. When Sophia’s father dies, it is up to Sophia to accept her destiny and lean into her magic to save the world from Jinn…all while attempting to live a normal life. Co-created and co-written with afshan d’souza-lodhi. Pilot commissioned by Sky Studios – available for series development.
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
Writers Attachment at Soho Theatre, November 2023
Junior writer for The Rising, 2022 (Sky Studios). Participated in writersroom & story lining
Demystifying The Epic writers residency at Shakespeare’s Globe, April 2021
SPHINX 30 development programme from Sphinx Theatre, 2020/1
BBC Writersroom Northern Voices, 2018/19
Tamasha Playwright 2016/17