Meera Syal, this year’s Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre
Meera Syal has been named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre based at St Catherine's College at the University of Oxford. She succeeds the director Sir Trevor Nunn. Professor Syal is a playwright, actress and writer who rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and became one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities in The Kumars at No. 42 , having appeared on radio, television, film and on stage. Her recent stage roles include Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine and in October she is appearing in The Killing of Sister George at the Arts Theatre, London in the grotesque role of June Buckridge. She is the author of two novels, Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee and Anita and Me which won the Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award. She has adapted both these novels for the screen.
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