Leesa Gazi ( bn, লিসা গাজী; born 14 August 1969) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, playwright, theatre director and actress based in London.

Background

Gazi's father fought during the

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Career

Gazi is the co-founder of theatre and arts company, Komola Collective. She was the script-writer and performer of ''Six Seasons'' and Tahmima Anam's ''

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'' at the

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. Her theatrical credits include: '' Birangona: Women of War'', ''

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'', ''Rokey's Dream'', ''Demon's Revenge'', ''Ponderful People'', and ''Bonbibi''. She also wrote the script for ''Bonbibi: Lady of the Forest'' in 2012. She performed in '' People's Romeo'', which had an eight-week nationwide tour with Tara Arts. ''Sonata'', adapted and performed by Gazi, was invited to Bangladesh in 2010 by the

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. She performed in a serialised adaptation of ''A Golden Age''. She worked as the cultural coordinator and as a voice artist for Akram Khan's '' Desh''. In 2012, she worked as a script interpreter

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at the

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on '' The Tempest''. She acted on a play about domestic violence called ''Whisper Me Happy Ever After''. She works for Train4change as an actor as well, and worked on a project with them on a film for the charity WaterAid. Between May and August 2014, she worked as an actor in a series of

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Educational Films. Gazi hosts ''Aei Jonopode'', a weekly live-phone-in show on

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. In 2010, her first novel ''Rourob'' was published. Gazi was awarded the Grants for the Arts by the ACE for the ''Birangona: Women of War'' theatre project by Komola Collective. She is the concept developer, co-writer and the performer of this theatre production. In May 2014, Gazi was interviewed by Nadia Ali on

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Personal life

Gazi and her husband, have two children; one born 2004 (named Sreya), the other 2006 (named Orion).

Filmography

Film

Stage

References

External links

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