Tajinder Singh Hayer

Tajinder Singh Hayer is a dramatist born in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1980. He has written for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Peshkar Productions and Menagerie Theatre Company. He has taught on the Creative Writing degree at the University of Bradford since 2004.[1]

Stage plays

• Players (West Yorkshire Playhouse, 2005) [2]
• In this house (Menagerie Theatre Company; The Junction, Cambridge, 2006)
• Hiphoperatic (Outdoor production, Peshkar Productions, 2007)
• Passengers (Peshkar Productions, Oldham Coliseum Theatre, 2008)
• Mela (West Yorkshire Playhouse, 2008) [3]
• Siege (Peshkar Productions; The Blue Box Theatre, Manchester; The Grange Arts Centre, Oldham; Lyceum Theatre (Crewe), 2008)
• 1001 (Peshkar Productions; University Centre Oldham, 2009)

Translations

• Antelopes by Andreas Flourakis (Janus Festival, West Yorkshire Playhouse, 2006) [4]

Radio drama

• The one that got away (as part of the Writing the City strand on BBC Radio 3, 2006) [5]
• If you can't stand the heat (Afternoon Play broadcast as part of the Takeaway strand, 2007) [6]
• ID (Afternoon Play, 2010) [7]
• We're not getting married (BBC Asian Network, 2010) [8]

Film

• Due (Short film, 2011) [9]

External links

Peshkar Productions website: [10]

West Yorkshire Playhouse website: [11]

Guardian review of Mela: [12]