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== Professional Life ==
===TV and radio===▼
Bhuchar has appeared in TV soap operas ''[[EastEnders]]'' and ''[[Coronation Street]]'',<ref name="corrie">{{cite web|title=Award-winning writer joins Coronation Street cast|url=http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/award-winning-writer-joins-coronation.html|website=Coronation Street Blog|accessdate=15 January 2017|date=16 August 2016}}</ref> and created the role of solicitor [[Usha Gupta]] in radio soap ''[[The Archers]]''.<ref name="jaggi">{{cite news|last1=Jaggi|first1=Maya|title=If you want it done properly ...|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/1999/jul/14/artsfeatures2|accessdate=15 January 2017|work=The Guardian|date=14 July 1999}}</ref>▼
In 2016 she appeared on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[Great Lives]]'', nominating Indian actress [[Zohra Sehgal]].<ref name="bbc">{{cite web|title=Sudha Bhuchar chooses the life of Zohra Sehgal: Great Lives, Series 39 Episode 4 of 9|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07875z7|website=Great Lives|publisher=BBC Radio 4|accessdate=15 January 2017}}</ref>▼
===Tamasha Theatre Company===
In 1989, Bhuchar and director Kristine Landon-Smith founded Tamasha Theatre Company with the mission of popularizing Asian art into the British mainstream culture, diversifying narratives, and encouraging developing artists from ethnic minorities.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tamasha.org.uk/about/history/|title=History - Tamasha Theatre Company|last=Company|first=Tamasha Theatre|website=www.tamasha.org.uk|language=en|access-date=10 June 2018}}</ref> At Tamasha, Bhuchar has worked as a playwright, actor, and co-Artistic Director.
According to Bhuchar in a 2014 interview with ''London Calling'' cultural review, Tamasha is a "political company" that encourages "diversity in the arts, representation on the stages, [and] writers from backgrounds which don't normally birth artists and writers".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.londoncalling.com/features/a-day-in-the-life-of-tamasha-theatre-company|title=Tamasha Theatre {{!}} A Day In The Life {{!}} Sudha Bhuchar & Fin Kennedy|website=www.londoncalling.com|language=en|access-date=10 June 2018}}</ref>
For their work with Tamasha, Bhuchar and Landon-Smith jointly won the 2005 Asian Women of Achievement Awards for Arts and Culture and the 2010 First Women Award in the Tourism and Leisure Category.<ref name=bc /> ▼
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After 26 years, Bhuchar retired from her Artistic Director position at Tamasha and founded a new theatre company, Bhuchar Boulevard in 2015.<ref name=":3" />▼
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===Bhuchar Boulevard===
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As Artistic Director of Bhuchar Boulevard, Sudha Bhuchar also works as a commissioned playwright. She most recently collaborated with Tamasha and Paines Plough Theatre Companies, writing a collection of monologues entitled <i>Come To Where I'm From</i> (2017).<ref name=boulevard />
▲=== TV and radio ===
▲Bhuchar has appeared in TV soap operas ''[[EastEnders]]'' and ''[[Coronation Street]]'',<ref name="corrie">{{cite web
▲In 2016 she appeared on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[Great Lives]]'', nominating Indian actress [[Zohra Sehgal]].<ref name="bbc">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07875z7|title=Sudha Bhuchar chooses the life of Zohra Sehgal: Great Lives, Series 39 Episode 4 of 9
===Playwriting and Screenwriting Selected Works<ref name=tamasha-past />===
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