Danusia Samal

Region: London (Greater London)

About / Bio

Danusia Samal is an actress, writer and jazz singer.  In 2018 she wrote and performed Busking It, a gig-theatre show inspired by her experiences as a London Underground busker. Her second play Out of Sorts, exploring a woman’s struggle with dual identity, won the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award and was shortlisted for the George Devine Award. In 2020, Danusia launched the Virtual Collaborators network to provide support and collaboration for artists in lockdown, culminating in a virtual and outdoor festival. Danusia is an alumnus of the BBC TV Drama Writer’s Programme.

Theatre writing credits include: Saba’s Swim (NT Connections); Bangers (Soho/Paines Plough/ Arcola); Cinderella (Brixton House); The Keyworker Cycles (Almeida); Out of Sorts (Theatre503); Busking It (Shoreditch Town Hall/ HighTide); Decolonising History (Tamasha Digital); Conditionally (Oxford School of Drama). Screen Writing credits include: Virdee (BBC);Gangs of London S2 & 3 (Sky); Bodies (Netflix); Birth Right and The State (LAMDA films). Audio Credits Include: The Golden Key (Coney); Shelter (Radio 4); Busking It (Forty Five North).

As an actress, Danusia’s theatre credits include: Bangers (Soho/Cardboard Citz); More Life, Maryland, B, How To Hold Your Breath (all Royal Court); Rutherford & Son (Sheffield Crucible); Busking It (Shoreditch Town Hall/HighTide/Soho); Trap Street (Kandinsky); What If Women Ruled the World (Manchester International Festival); The Two Noble Kinsmen and The Rover (both RSC);  The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead (ETT); The House That Will Not Stand (Tricycle); Circles (Birmingham Rep/Tricycle); Billy the Girl (Clean Break /Soho); The Birthday Party (Manchester Royal Exchange); 1001 Nights and Liar Liar (both Unicorn); After The Rainfall (Curious Directive). Film credits include The Trip (XYZ Films), Ghost in the Shell (Paramount), The Quiet House (Tea Films) and My Friend the Polish Girl (Warsaw Pact Films). TV credits include Red Eye S2 (ITV) The Serial Killer’s Wife (Channel 5), Gangs of London S3 (Sky), The Great & Black Cake (Hulu), and Tyrant (Fox).


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Alex Rusher
Independent Talen
40 Whitfield St, London W1T 2RH

alexrusher@independenttalent.com
020 7636 6565


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Genres

Comedy
Film
Online writing
Poetry
Radio
Short story
Television
Theatre
Videogames

Writer's credits

TV

Virdee – Episode Writer – BBC – 2023 – 2024

Gangs of London – Episode Writer – Sky/ Pulse Films – 2020 – 2023

Bodies – Episode Writer – Netflix / Moonage – 2021

Questions for Q – Writer/ Creator – BBC 3 Script Commission – 2020

Rojava, N18 – Writer/ Creator – BBC TV Drama Writer’s Programme – 2019

 

THEATRE

Cinderella – Brixton House – 2023

Bangers – Soho / Cardboard Citz – 2022 – 2023

Out of Sorts (Winner of International Playwriting Award) – Theatre503 – 2019

Conditionally – Oxford School of Drama/ Soho – 2019

Busking It – HighTide/Shoreditch Town Hall – 2018

Langthorne Stories – Soho Theatre/ Waltham Forest – 2017

 

FILM

Never Walk Alone – Writer – Temple Hill – 2023

The State – Writer/Creator – LAMDA films

Birth Right – Writer/Creator – LAMDA films

 

AUDIO

The Golden Key – Coney – 2022

Shelter – Radio 4 – 2021

Busking It – Forty-Five North – 2020

Decolonising History – Tamasha / Soas University – 2019

 

 

 

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