South Asian Scratch

Thu 9th Jul

About

Come and spend some social time with friends in our bar and enjoy hearing from some of the best up-and-coming South Asian artists. Presenting a range of material from exerts of plays to comedy, this free evening of entertainment is a great way to experience something new.

No need to book, simply arrive and enjoy the bar atmosphere and see some up and coming South Asian Artists experiment with new creative material.

Say you saw them first at Stratford East by coming and seeing:

Ben Grant
Ben is a multidisciplinary artist - a director, writer and performer, working across theatre and film.

As a director, Ben was most recently the Bryan Forbes Assistant Director with the National Youth Theatre’s REP Company. He was previously Creative Associate at Jermyn Street Theatre and Resident Director at the Oxford Playhouse and Magdalen College School.

As a writer, Ben has been an Associate Artist at Rifco Theatre Company, where he was given a seed commission to develop his first short film, and part of Chichester Festival Theatre’s pilot Artist Development Programme, where he developed the original, full-length version of The Brown Ranger. In 2025, he was commissioned by the Bloomsbury Festival and Macready Theatre to write an Edinburgh Fringe show for Square Pegs Young Actors' Company. He is currently on Soho Theatre’s Writers’ Lab and the Criterion Theatre’s New Writing Programme.

Fiza Owais
Hailing from North West London, FIZA is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and storyteller whose soulful vocals and honest songwriting have already earned widespread

acclaim. Her latest single, Detached, was featured as a BBC Introducing Artist of the Week and on Rolling Stone UK's Hot New Songs playlist.
FIZA has performed across the UK and beyond, with standout appearances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh's Hogmanay, and London Fashion Week in collaboration with AllSaints. She has also worked alongside Little Simz as one of her young producers for the Meltdown Festival and is a member of the Roundhouse Music Collective, where she recently performed at a sold-out Roundhouse Three Sixty Festival.

A proud member of the National Youth Theatre, FIZA's love for storytelling is at the heart of everything she creates, whether through music or performance. As she prepares to release her debut EP, she continues to establish herself as a distinctive and exciting new voice across both music and theatre.

Nayonica Ghosh
Nayonica Ghosh is a stand up comedian and filmmaker whose work has been featured on the BBC, Guardian Time Out and Gal-Dem. Her short film 'I said Maybe' that she wrote and directed, received an honourable mention at the BAFTA Qualifying LOCO film festival one week filmmaking competition. In 2022 she made it to the final 10 of the Sky Comedy Rep writing scheme shortlist and her sketches were also featured in theiplayer streamed comedy tent of The BBC Upload festival. She has performed around the UK including at Truck Music Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Soho Theatre's Diwali on the Square and the Southwark Playhouse. She is in process of putting together her debut hour of comedy with support of a grant from the Grand Plan.

Kris Brooks
Kris Brooks is a London-based sketch writer with an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London. He is known for vivid character-based comedy built on sharp, ironic subversion where the smart meets the silly. His comedic heroes include Conan O'Brien, Tina Fey, and Kumail Nanjiani. You can find his work at www.krisbot.lol.
Instagram: @krisbotch

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