BALBEER BAHI:

After two decades in theatre, I focused on writing scripts.
I am more excited now than ever to work with fellow Storytellers.

May 2019 -> Current:  UNINTENTIONHELL: Writer/Director

Confronting his daughter's young killer, a tormented father is drawn into a maze of shared grief.  

A zero/micro-budget 78mins feature, expressing the rage felt in the South London community about knife/gun crime.   Currently submitting to festivals.   www.unintentionhell.com

June 2020-> Current:  ABHI: BABY DRAGON, FLYING TIGER: Writer/Co-Director           

A Sabre-Tooth Tiger Cub and an abandoned Baby Dragon, on an epic journey to find his mother, must survive a wicked King with a taste for dragon soup.

A large-scale family feature in pre-production with www.RedGodStudios.com.

I have a number of completed scripts, from micro-budget to large-scale projects.  I've only ever written stories that I love, and hope others will too.   It's taken a while but picked up some of the craft of writing, which I hope to keep developing. 

PERSONAL HISTORY: 

At 18 I joined a theatre company, Tara Arts, working with them full-time for 7 years, as Stage Manager, then Actor, and finally as Writer-In-Residence. I also freelanced with The Royal Court, Taliesin Theatre, and wrote for BBC Radio. By 24 I had been involved in dozens of professional productions, including several Theatre-in-Education initiatives, run poetry and writing workshops, and helped set up the New Playwrights Trust.

Going freelance, I worked with Carib Theatre, LIFT (The London International Festival of Theatre), The Men from Cha-Cha-Cha, and Common Lore.  Finally, I created and ran The Storytelling Machine and The Theatre of Origami, doing exactly what the two titles suggest. 95% of my work was in schools with 3–16-year-olds, performing and working with over 25 000 children a year.  Highly enjoyable, educational, satisfying and rewarding work.  And a brilliant way to hone my storytelling skills.  Loved it.