“I want to see that my words have affected a person, that I have somehow stirred an emotion in someone. After all, my job as a writer is to incite an emotional reaction and when that is achieved it is a validation of my craft and imagination.”
Ishy Din is a playwright for radio and theatre.
Ishy Din in conversation with John Siddique
John Siddique talks to Ishy Din about their experience of directing and producing the new series, Mosaic Monologues, featuring six dramas commissioned by WritersMosaic.
Biography
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.