Ishy Din is currently Associate Playwright at the Royal Court and under commission for new plays at The Kiln and the RSC. Champion opened at Live Theatre, Newcastle in February 2025. Approaching Empty opened at The Kiln in January 2019. In 2016, his play Wipers, a Leicester Curve/Watford Palace/Belgrade, Coventry co-production toured to those three theatres.
In 2014, his monologue for Company TSU played in double bill Beats North at Edinburgh Fringe Fest. Ishy was the 2012 Pearson Writer in Residence at the Manchester Royal Exchange, and in 2013, Snookered won ‘Best New Play’ at the Manchester.










