Passages: Promenade

Nicole Latchana

Writer

Nicole Latchana is a queer Indo Caribbean playwright devising with communities and writing solo projects. Her play A Practical Guide on How to Save the World When No One F***ing Else Is (Tara Theatre), which she wrote in 4 weeks for Tara’s Young Company, had a sold out run and a five-star review – she is now redrafting the play.

Other commissions include Landing Bolyts (Fio Theatre); Choking Hazard (45 North) and Dough (Bush Theatre, Sonia Friedman).

Latchana is a DYCP recipient, exploring her ancestral history – Chinese and Indian Indentured labour in the Caribbean. Training includes C4Screenwriting, The Royal Court Writer’s Group and Writing for Stage and Broadcast media MA from Central. She has over a decade of experience working as a playwright in community settings with The Dot Collective, London Bubble Theatre, and Southwark Council. This year she devised a film with 30 people with London Bubble’s older adults’ groups, which screened at the BFI.

Her work often seeks to subvert traditional genres and story structures, to offer authentic portrayals of marginalized experiences mostly through a queer lens. She is fascinated with how to dramatize the link between the political and personal.