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Atiha is a writer who is interested in telling the stories of those who stitch the red carpet rather than those who stand on it.

At age 17 Atiha was commissioned by Hampstead Theatre to write What Fatima Did which was produced on the mainstage in 2009.

 

Theatre

2011 – Fatima – Germany

2014 – State Red – Hampstead Downstairs

2015-2016 – Counting Stars – Assembly Rooms (Edinburgh Fringe) and Theatre Royal Stratford East

2016 – The Flood – Denmark

2018 – Abi – Derby Theatre/Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch

2019 – GIG – RADA

 

Television + Film

2009 – Skins

2016 – Holby City

2020-present – EastEnders

2021 – SALMA – Film4 + Slam Films

 

Awards/Nominations

2010 – Nomination for the Evening Standard’s Most Promising Playwright Award for What Fatima Did

2010 – Nomination for the John Whiting Award for What Fatima Did

2012 – Winner of prestigious German theatre Award Jugendstückepreis for Fatima

2015 – Nomination for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award for Counting Stars

 2016 – Winner of the IARA Award for Best Playwright

Anton Burge is a writer and actor whose third play Bette & Joan has just completed a successful run at The Park Theatre, London. The production, starring Greta Scacchi and Felicity Dean, was described by Lloyd Evans in The Spectator as “brutal and brilliant”.

Bette & Joan has also recently opened for a third season in Germany and will be produced for the first time in Holland next year. In 2023 it completed its fourth run in Poland and was on tour in the North of England over 2019. It has also enjoyed success in Spain, Estonia, Slovakia and Australia. A new production by the Ensemble Theatre will premier in Sydney in 2025.

As a playwright Anton specialises in writing for women, focusing on celebrated women of the 19th and 20th centuries. Bette & Joan opened in the West End in 2011 starring Greta Scacchi and Anita Dobson, directed by Bill Alexander, before a national tour in 2012.

Anton’s other plays include: What Ever Happened to the Cotton Dress Girl?, starring Paula Wilcox, G & I {both New End Theatre, Hampstead}; Lady Mosley’s Suite, a study of Diana Mosley’s time in Holloway prison {read in 2010 at the Trafalgar Studios with a cast including Emilia Fox and Patricia Hodge} and Curtsy! {read in 2015 with a cast including Sylvestra le Touzel and Sophie Ward}. Storm in a Flower Vase, which explored the life of the florist Constance Spry, played in the West End in 2013, starring Penny Downie and was directed by Alan Strachan. Mrs. Pat, opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre starring Dame Penelope Keith in 2015. Fanny’s Burning!, about the cookery writer Fanny Cradock, was produced at Frinton Theatre in 2024.

The Warring Wives of Windsor goes into production in 2026, directed by Stephen Unwin.

His biography of Bette Davis, A Life Lived in Melodrama: Bette Davis in 134 Characters is recently published by Fantom Books. In 2020 he published a book of studies and interviews of interpretations of Queen Elizabeth I: Portraying Elizabeth: Elizabeth I on Stage & Screen, the interviewees including Anna Massey, Glenda Jackson, Dame Eileen Atkins, Miranda Richardson and Dame Harriet Walter. This year sees the publication of Turning into ‘The Lady’ a book of studies and interpretations of Margaret Thatcher. The interviewees include Patricia Hodge, Dame Maureen Lipman, Angela Thorne and Haydn Gwynne. His first contemporary play: Year of the Virgin was read at The Charing Cross Theatre in 2019, with a cast including Sian Thomas. Storm in a Flower Vase, Bette & Joan and Mrs. Pat are published by Samuel French Ltd.