Vinay Patel

Vinay’s TV debut Murdered By My Father was commissioned for the BBC and starred Adeel Akhtar, Kiran Sonia Sawar and Mawaan Rizwan. It won 2 RTS Awards including Best Single Drama and was nominated for three BAFTAs including Best Single Drama and the Breakthrough Talent Award for Vinay. It won the BAFTA for best Leading Actor (Adeel Akhtar) and Vinay was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit for his work on the film. He went on to write episodes for Doctor Who, including the Hugo-nominated Demons Of The Punjab and Fugitive Of The Judoon. Most recently, he was a writer on the Netflix adaptation of One Day by David Nicholls.

Vinay Patel’s theatre debut True Brits premiered at Edinburgh Fringe and went on to the Bush Theatre’s Radar Festival and the Vault Festival. His play An Adventure premiered at the Bush in 2018 where it was directed by former Artistic Director Madani Younis and had a second production at Bolton Octagon. His sci-fi adaptation of The Cherry Orchard directed by James Macdonald, premiered in 2022 at The Yard Theatre. It was a Yard Theatre, ETT and HOME co-production, co-commissioned by The Yard Theatre and ETT. Vinay is an associate playwright at The Royal Court and is on attachment to The Bush Theatre. Vinay has several new plays in development including a new play with James Bierman/Empire Street Productions and he is adapting The Cloud Atlas for ETT.