Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's first play BEHSHARAM (SHAMELESS) broke box office records when it played at Soho Theatre and the Birmingham Rep in 2001. Her play BEHZTI (DISHONOUR) was sensationally closed in December 2004, after playing to packed houses at the Birmingham Rep. In 2005 BEHZTI won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for the best English language play written by a woman. In 2006 the play was translated into French and did a sell-out tour in France and Belgium. Most recently her play BEHUD (BEYOND BELIEF) was produced by Soho Theatre and Coventry Belgrade.
She is now writing a feature film for Stealth Films, an adaptation of An Enemy of the People for the BBC World Service and working on stage commissions for Kali Theatre, Tara Arts and Birmingham Rep.
Other credits include the half hour film DEAD MEAT, produced by Channel 4 as part of the Dogma TV season; MERA DES (MY COUNTRY), a fifty minute play for Radio 3; STITCHED UP (commissioned series for BBC1); HONOUR (single film for BBC2); LIPSTICK AND NAILS (police drama for Great Meadow Productions); THE CLEANER, an hour-long film for BBC1; POUND SHOP BOYS (originally commissioned by October Films/Film Council/Scottish Screen and developed through PAL); PILE UP and THE BRIDE (both commissioned serials for Carlton Television); LONDONEE (Theatre Royal Stratford East - rehearsed reading); TWO OLD LADIES (Leicester Haymarket); AIRPORT 2000 (Leicester Haymarket); over thirty episodes of the BBC World Service Drama Serial - WESTWAY (1999-2001); and nine episodes of EASTENDERS (2001-2005).
Gurpreet studied Modern Languages at Bristol University.
