Sumerah Srivastav
Writer - Stage / Television
Agent: Jean Kitson - jean@kitsonpress.co.uk
Sumerah is a British, South Asian screenwriter and playwright with an MBA and a background in law. She most recently co-wrote the season 1 finale of Netflix’s international hit series Lupin. She has also written on Netflix’s Messiah and BBC continuing dramas, Casualty and EastEnders. Sumerah is currently working on a season 4 episode of ITV’s Good Karma Hospital. As a playwright, she came up through the Royal Court’s invited Studio programme and the Criterion playwright programme. She recently contributed to Stratford East’s 846 Live, a staged response piece to the murder of George Floyd. Sumerah is co-Artistic Director of theatre company Kahani Arts, Trustee Director for the charity Mercury Musical Developments and co-Chair of the Equalities & Diversity committee at the Writers Guild of Great Britain. Prior to her writing career, Sumerah launched and ran an award-winning commercial radio station targeting London’s Asian youth audiences (Club Asia) for which she won numerous awards, including a Women in Public Life award and an Asian Woman of Achievement award. She is on Twitter @sumerahas and more info can be found at www.sumerah.com.