ABOUT

Krishna Istha is a London-based performance artist, screenwriter, comedian and theatre maker. They create socially conscious form-pushing works about taboo or underrepresented experiences of gender, race and sexual politics.

Currently, they are writing on SEX EDUCATION Netflix (Season 4) and a recipient of the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund. More recently, they were a Barbican Centre Open Lab artist (2022), and an Arts Admin Bursary Artist (2020-21).

They were one of two shortlisted writers for the SKY Arts & Royal Society of Literature Writers Awards under screenwriting (2022), and came Runner-Up on Screenshot (2021) — a competition for comedy writer-performers hosted by Sister Pictures and South of the River Pictures.

Krishna currently has multiple original television series in development with Bonafide Films and South Of The River Pictures.

Agent: Tanya Tillet at The Agency