Atiha Sen-Gupta (born 1988) is a British playwright and screenwriter. She is writer-in-residence for 2016-2017 at

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in London, where her play ''Counting Stars'' was produced in 2016. The daughter of a journalist and activist Rahila Gupta, Sen Gupta attended

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in London where she became involved as a teenager with the

Hampstead Theatre Hampstead Theatre is a theatre in South Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden. It specialises in commissioning and producing new writing, supporting and developing the work of new writers. Roxana Silbert has been the artistic director since ...

’s youth company. She studied politics and sociology at Warwick University, graduating in 2012. In 2009, when she was just 21, her debut play ''What Fatima Did'' premiered at the

to critical acclaim. The play was produced in Germany at the Hanseatic State Theater in 2011, and received the Youth Theater Prize at the Heidelberger Stückemarkt festival in the following year. In 2014, her play about police racism, ''State Red'', was produced at the Hampstead Downstairs. She followed up with ''Counting Stars'', about two Nigerian nightclub toilet attendants working in a club in "post- Lee Rigby post-

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Woolwich" which played at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015 and on the main stage of the

in August–September 2016. As well as theatre, Sen Gupta also writes for television, beginning in 2009 when she co-wrote "Noami", an episode in the third series of '' Skins''. On 23 June 2016, an episode Sen Gupta co-wrote with Katie Douglas aired on BBC One's ''

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''. Sen Gupta has worked for several disability advocacy organizations. Her brother Nihal, who had cerebral palsy, died at the age of 17.

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