Demi Nandhra is a writer, director and theatre-maker based in Birmingham, working across performance, socially engaged practice, screen and theatre. Her work explores the mess of being alive — navigating trauma, intimacy, care and survival through humour, introspection and deeply boundaried process.

Her debut show and Edinburgh Fringe debut, LIFE IS NO LAUGHING MATTER, premiered at Summerhall to critical acclaim. The production toured nationally and internationally, winning a Lustrum Award and receiving nominations for both the Total Theatre Award for Emerging Artist and the Mental Health Fringe Award. It was later optioned for television by Firebird Pictures and underwent development including a table read with SKY.

In television, Demi has contributed to writers’ rooms for Everything I Know About Love (BBC / Working Title) and Buddha of Suburbia (Mammoth Screen).

As a director, her credits include WIGS SNATCHED, PERCEPTIONS DESTROYED by Erinn Dhesi, which won a Vault Festival Week 3 Award. Her theatre work includes THE TRAUMA SHOW (Battersea Arts Centre), SICK AND TIRED (Fierce Festival), and OIL AND WATER (Contact Theatre).

Her work has been commissioned and supported by organisations including Battersea Arts Centre, In Good Company, Wellcome Collection, Fierce Festival, Contact Theatre, and Cambridge Junction, and presented across the UK and internationally by partners such as Summerhall, Camden People’s Theatre, Buzzcut Festival, MAC Birmingham, and Sophiensaele Berlin.

She is the recipient of the In Good Company Mid-Career Artist Award and a former Another Route International Fellow.

Demi is currently developing a new slate of performance and screen projects, including GHOSTING MYSELF: The Suicide Series — an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex, often hidden relationships we have with suicide — and GHOSTING MYSELF, a romantic dark comedy for stage and screen.