Ishy was the 2012 Pearson Writer in Residence at the Manchester Royal Exchange and in 2013 Snookered won ‘Best New Play’ at the Manchester Theatre Awards. Radio: Ishy Din’s first radio play was JOHN BARNES SAVED MY LIFE for BBC Radio 5 Live. Other credits include WHOSE BABY for BBC Radio 4 and PARKING AND PAKORAS for local radio.

Ishy Din is a playwright and screenwriter, known for his narratives that reflect his upbringing on Teesside, where he remains rooted in Middlesbrough. His journey into the world of storytelling was preceded by a diverse array of jobs, marking the beginning of his evolution into a versatile and accomplished dramatist across multiple disciplines.

Ishy Din is known for Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators (2018), Ackley Bridge (2017) and Phoenix Rise (2023).

Ishy was the 2012 Pearson Writer in Residence at the Manchester Royal Exchange and in 2013 Snookered won Best New Play at the Manchester Theatre Awards. In the same year, he wrote the short film Perfume for Eclipse Theatre’s ‘10 x 10’ online project.

2024年4月18日 · Ishy Din wrote his first play in his mid-30s after hearing a BBC radio call-out for scripts while driving a cab in Middlesbrough, his hometown in north-east England. Now 55, the British-Pakistani playwright is one of four writers of Silence, a powerful adaptation of Kavita Puri’s book Partition Voices: Untold British Stories. The play ...

2022年1月26日 · Ishy is an award winning writer for stage screen and radio Currently he is under commission from the RSC for a new play about the Mughals. Other original projects in development include a crime drama for Lime Pictures, a feature film, FRAUD, through Gurinder Chadha’s company Bend It Networks and PAAK UNITED.

2019年1月15日 · The two jobs may not have much in common, but driving a taxi was the perfect training to become a playwright, according to Ishy Din. "The beauty of cabbing is that you don't know who the next...

Ishy Din’s theatre work includes Approaching Empty (Kiln Theatre, Tamasha, Live Theatre and UK tour), Snookered (Tamasha, Oldham Coliseum and Bush Theatre) and Beats North (Edinburgh Fringe). He was the 2012 Pearson Writer in Residence at the Manchester Royal Exchange and in 2013 Snookered won Best New Play at the Manchester Theatre Awards.

Ishy Din is an award-winning playwright. His plays include Snookered and Wipers, and he has also written for TV and Film. He has recently written an episode for the new Channel 4 drama Ackley Road and is listed on the BBC New Talent Hotlist 2017.