Uma Nada-Rajah is a playwright and nurse based in Kilbarchan, Scotland. She was a member of the Young Writers’ Program at the Traverse Theatre and a recipient of a New Playwrights’ Award from Playwrights’ Studio Scotland. Uma was one the BBC’s Scottish Voices 2020, and was also recently the Starter Female Political Comedy Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre of Scotland. She is currently under commission to the Almeida Theatre and the Traverse Theatre.

Theatre includes: Exodus (Traverse Theatre); Toy Plastic Chicken (Òran Mór/ Traverse Theatre)