Emteaz Hussain

Emteaz Hussain is currently writing her second play Blood: The Ballad of Caneze and Sully with Tamasha Theatre and her first radio play Yapping with BBC Radio. She has recently completed the Studio Group at The Royal Court Theatre.  She works extensively as a workshop practitioner devising original, contemporary drama with young people in both statutory and voluntary settings, specialising in Pupil Referral units. As a spoken word artist, she has performed both nationally and internationally, and toured as a backing poet with the Benjamin Zephaniah Band. Her debut play Sweet Cider was produced by Tamasha at the Arcola Theatre in November 2008, garnering four-star reviews from Time Out and Whatsonstage.