Nikhil Parmar in Invisible at the Bush Theatre. Image by Ali Wright.
‘No more quiet, no more model minority, no more wacky best friend. At least when we were the bad guys we existed.’
Meet Zayan, an under-employed actor and over-employed dealer who sees himself as the hapless lead in the sitcom that is his life. Everyone else sees him as lazy, self-centred, and useless – if they even notice him at all.
As Zayan attempts to transition from being neglected to being notorious, we see how a man whose brushes with oppression, grief, and the sneaking suspicion that he’s become invisible have driven him to the unforgivable.
Invisible is a hilariously dark story tracking one man’s desperate struggle to be seen as the hero of his own narrative. A new Bush Theatre commission written and performed by Nikhil Parmar (Trollied).
Bella Kear graduated LAMDA in July 2021 with a First-Class Honours Degree in Production and Technical Arts.
Credits as a Sound Designer include: Invisible, Clutch, Elephant and The Kola Nut Does not Speak English (Bush Theatre); The Animal Kingdom (Hampstead); The Night Woman (Other Palace); First Love is the Revolution (East15); The Faith Machine (RADA); Pelican Daughters, Education, Education, Education (ArtsEd); Darling (Hope).
Credits as an Associate Sound Designer include: Newsies (Troubadour Wembley Park); Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner (Swedish Transfer); Edith (The Lowry); Purple Snowflakes (Royal Court); Blue/Orange (Theatre Royal Bath); A Place For We (Park).
Deirdre O’Halloran is the Literary Manager at the Bush Theatre, working to identify and build relationships with new writers, commission new work and guide plays to the stage.
At the Bush she’s dramaturged plays including Olivier Award winners Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd and The P Word by Waleed Akhtar, Lava by Benedict Lombe and An Adventure by Vinay Patel.
Deirdre was previously Literary Associate at Soho Theatre, where she worked as a dramaturg on plays including Girls by Theresa Ikoko and Fury by Phoebe Eclair-Powell. She led on Soho Theatre’s Writers’ Lab programme and the biennial Verity Bargate Award.
As a freelancer, Deirdre has also been a reader for Out of Joint, Sonia Friedman Productions and Papatango.
Diane Alison-Mitchell is a movement director and theatre choreographer. She is Head of Movement at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and co-founded and co-leads the Movement Directors’ Association (MDA).
Theatre include: Family Tree (Actors Touring Company); Blue/Orange (Royal & Derngate Northampton); Heart of Hammersmith (Lyric Hammersmith); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Criterion Theatre); When The Crows Visit, Wife, Holy Sh!t (Kiln Theatre); Shuck ‘n’ Jive (Soho Theatre); Our Lady of Kibeho (Royal & Derngate/Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Hoes (Hampstead Theatre); Snow White and the Happy Ever After Salon (Ovalhouse/Plymouth Theatre Royal); Never Vera Blue, Offside (Futures Theatre); The Island (Theatre Chipping Norton/Dukes Lancaster); Roundelay, Klippies (Southwark Playhouse); They Drink It In The Congo (Almeida Theatre), SOUL (Royal & Derngate/Hackney Empire), Othello, Julius Caesar (RSC), The Emperor Jones (LOST Theatre), How Nigeria Became: A story, and a spear that didn’t work (Unicorn Theatre), The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Nambia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 (Bush Theatre), The Island (Young Vic), Lola – The Life of Lola Montez (Trestle Theatre), The Relapse (Embassy Theatre).
As director, Diane co-directed Bones by Tanika Gupta at the Courtyard Theatre, Royal Central.
Georgia Green is an award-nominated director and writer. As director her work includes Pilgrims (Guildhall); Three Sisters (LAMDA); Human Animals (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama); Twelfth Night (ALRA); Parliament Square (Rose Bruford); OUTSIDE: Three new plays by Kalungi Ssebandeke, Sonali Bhattacharyya and Zoe Cooper (Orange Tree Theatre); Blue Stockings (LAMDA); You Got Older (LAMDA) and The Mikvah Project (Orange Tree Theatre/ BBC Radio 4, which was nominated for a Stage Award).
She is about to direct Ruckus at Edinburgh’s Summerhall and The Get on BBC Radio 3, is a lead facilitator at Cardboard Citizens, a mentor on the MFA Playwriting at Central School of Speech and Drama and a reader for the Bruntwood Prize.
As assistant/associate director her credits include Emilia (LAMDA); Dirty Crusty (Yard Theatre); Amsterdam (ATC/Orange Tree Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth); Out of Water and The Double Dealer (Orange Tree Theatre); and Zog (Rose Theatre Kingston/Freckle Productions/Kneehigh).
Lois Sime (she/her) trained in Stage Management as Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Previous credits include: The Last Word (Marylebone); For Tonight (Adelphi); Brassed Off (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); You Bury Me (Paines Plough); Mother Goose (Hackney Empire).
Nikhil is a London based, Manchester-born playwright, screenwriter and actor. His writing is unfalteringly honest, peppered with disarming wit.
Theatre includes My White Best Friend North (Manchester Royal Exchange), Something’s End (in development) and Invisible (Bush Theatre). Screen includes Untitled (two projects in development, Baby Cow), Untitled (in development, Sunnymarch) and Untitled (in development, DNA).
Acting includes Trollied (Sky), On the Edge: Mincemeat (Channel 4), Brassic (Sky), Foundation (Apple) and The Rig (Amazon).
Fellowships include Emerging Writers Group (2021), Andy Riley’s Mentorship Scheme for writers from diverse backgrounds (2018-19).
Ruth Burgon is a graduate of LAMDA and primarily works in new writing. Credits as Production Manager include Never Not Once (Park); BACK UP! (Bush Theatre); Nora, Let the Right One In (LAMDA). As Props Supervisor: Old Bridge (Bush Theatre). Stage Management credits include: Black is the Colour of My Voice (Seabright Productions); Coming Clean (King’s Head); Six (Bunker Theatre).
