Uma Nada-Rajah was a member of the Young Writers’ programme at the Traverse Theatre and a recipient of a New Playwrights’ Award from Playwrights’ Studio Scotland. She is a graduate of École Philippe Gaulier and was recently the Starter Female Political Comedy Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre of Scotland. She is currently under commission to the Almeida Theatre as a part of the Genesis Almeida New Playwrights programme 2022. Uma also works as a nurse for NHS Scotland. Theatre credits include Toy Plastic Chicken (A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Òran Mór and Traverse Theatre; BBC iPlayer), The Dubai Papers (rehearsed reading, Traverse Theatre), The Domestic and Rapunzel (National Theatre of Scotland).