Tassa Deparis
Tassa is a Suffolk-based writer who also works in education and heritage. Indonesian born and raised in London, she has also lived and worked in Germany. She is interested in stress and rhythm and how linguistic shifts create different narrative spaces. Tassa writes around motherhood and womanhood and is concerned with capturing the whispered and hidden worlds that people occupy; her writing travels through dark spaces in search of pieces of hope. She is currently leading a creative project with local mothers and designing sustainable projects with Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum. Tassa is also a creative facilitator and has worked with various theatres and companies including The New Wolsey Theatre, Ellander Productions and Flight of the Escales. Tassa is a graduate of the MA in Writing for Performance and Dramaturgy at Goldsmiths University. She was selected for artistic development with Park theatre. Credits include: Swallow the Lake (Mercury Theatre, HighTide, More… Ghost by Candlelight (HighTide, Shakespeares Globe), Two Under Two (Virtual Collaborators Festival); The Daughter Abroad (Theatre503); This Wall (The English Theatre, Berlin); Mothers Milk (ArtsDepot) Two Under Two (Virtual Collaborators Festival); The Daughter Abroad (Theatre503); This Wall (The English Theatre, Berlin); Mothers Milk (ArtsDepot)
Tassa is working with groups of women who lived through the 1960s and 1970s to develop a new play.
Nayantara Nayar
Nayantara Nayar is a playwright, researcher, and storyteller from Chennai, India. Her research interests include memory, urban spaces, and ecological crises. She is a CHASE funded PhD researcher at University of East Anglia where she studies water crisis and the potential of theatre practices to foster different water-related imaginaries.
Her body of work as a playwright includes, the visual art + performance project Limits of Change (Co-Creator, Chennai Photo Biennale, 2024-25); Lost Waters (Green Theatre Revolution, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2024); Curfew (Rage Theatre and Lyric Theatre Belfast, 2022-23); The Sometimes River (Parag, 2023); Chicken Run (Co-Creator, Chennai Photo Biennale, 2021-22); and The Body (New Writing Festival, Rage Theatre and Enacte Theatre).
Nayantara is further developing her practice of climate conscious theatre making, exploring waterways in East Anglia and the comparisons and connections with her home region in Chennai.
Sonny Nwachukwu
Sonny Nwachukwu is a multidisciplinary artist and the artistic director of Gateway Arts. Sonny creates socially relevant, innovative, and accessible work that blends movement, text, and immersive storytelling. His work explores themes of family relationships, identity, and life patterns.
Sonny wrote and directed Saturn Returns at the Unlimited Festival (Southbank Centre), which was nominated for a Black British Theatre Award in 2022 and has also worked on productions such as Paradis FIles (Graeae) High Times and Dirty Monsters, the latter winning an Offie Award for Access. His current project, The Nursery, explores fatherhood in the 21st century and the effects of parental neglect.
Rooted in innovation and a commitment to inclusivity, Sonny’s work hopes to challenge traditional forms of theatre.
Sonny is exploring his mixed practice in movement and writing to create a new piece centring parenthood
Rosa Torr
Rosa Torr is a Norwich-based interdisciplinary writer and producer. Her writing credits include RATTUS RATTUS: the epic tale of man vs rat (Norfolk and Norwich Festival, National Centre for Writing), The Creation Station (First Light Festival), Sea Her (Directors Cut Theatre), Bump (TARA Arts, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Smock Alley Theatre). Rosa was also dramaturg/ producer on Gun to your Head (Vault Festival, and tour) and is a Co-Founder of DAKOTA COLLECTIVE.
Rosa is looking at her writing practice connected to place and exploring the creation of site-specific theatre in Norfolk and Suffolk.