Sonali is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose productions include Chasing Hares (Young Vic), Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre), Megaball (National Theatre Learning), Assembly and 2066 (both for Almeida Theatre), The Invisible Boy (Kiln Theatre) and White Open Spaces (Pentabus Theatre). Sonali is currently under commission to the Bristol Old Vic, Chichester Festival Theatre, Fifth Word, Kali Theatre and have a drama series in development with Dancing Ledge Productions and an Augmented Reality project in development with Anagram.

Sonali is interested in dramatising the people’s history, and putting characters centre stage who have previously been obscured. Stories allow us to imagine different ways of living, and that act of imagination is the first step to changing the world.

Milli is an internationally acclaimed Theatre, Film and Radio Director and Dramaturg from East London.

She is an Associate Artist at Synergy. She was Associate Director at The Royal Court Theatre until December 2023. She has since left to pursue freelance projects.

Before this, she was Trainee Director and then Literary Associate at The Royal Court, Associate Artist at The Bush Theatre, Resident Assistant Director at Birmingham Rep and Creative Associate at The Gate Theatre. Her training includes The National Theatre Director’s Programme, and The Old Vic 12.

Her production of seven methods of killing kylie jenner was nominated for The Olivier Award for outstanding achievement in an affiliate theatre. Her other work has been nominated for Visionary Arts Awards, EE Actas and Asian Media Awards, and her work has both received West End and international transfers. She was photographed by Rankin as part of his ‘Performance’ series, and an interview about her practice was recently published as one of 24 in ‘Conversations With Women Theatre Directors’ in the book ‘Running The Room’ by Rosemary Waugh. A quote from this book is listed below:

Our most brilliant, fearless and creative women directors open the door on their craft, discussing their work in the theatre in intimate and illuminating detail. Through a series of fascinating conversations with many of the leading talents working on British stages, Running the Room explores what it takes to succeed in the field, and how each director approaches the work in their own way.”