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Uma Nada-Rajah

UMA NADA-RAJAH

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Giles Smart

Uma is a playwright based in Kirknewton, Scotland. She is one of the BBC's Scottish Voices 2020 and was most recently the Starter Female Political Comedy writer-in-residence at the National Theatre of Scotland. Uma is a graduate of Ecole Philippe Gaulier and a previous participant of the Royal Court's Young Writers' Programme and the Traverse Theatre's Young Writers' Programme. In 2014 Uma won the New Playwrights Award from Playwrights Studio Scotland. She works as a staff nurse with NHS Scotland.  

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below is a list of Uma Nada-Rajah's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Constant K Determines The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe, The         Dubai Papers, The         Magical Plastic Chicken         Toy Plastic Chicken
Constant K Determines The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe, The

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Winner of The Freshwater Pearls New Writing Award

1st Produced:
Pearl Company Theatre, Canada     2008

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A Play, a Pie and a Pint

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Dubai Papers, The

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rehearsed reading, Traverse, Edinburgh     2012

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Magical Plastic Chicken

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Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh     2018

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Toy Plastic Chicken

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At Edinburgh Airport, a toy plastic chicken is suspected to be a bomb. A woman is screened for domestic radicalisation, while her interrogators decide to perform violent and radical act of their own.  Based on a true story, Toy Plastic Chicken is a blackly comedic exploration of degradation and revolt.

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1st Produced:
Oran Mor, Glasgow     11 May 2019

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Salamander Street Ltd. (27 Aug. 2020)   

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Lunchtime one act

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