Sarah Bedi

Sarah Elizabeth Bedi is a British actress and director. She has worked extensively in radio, stage and television.

Early life and education

Bedi was born Sarah Elizabeth Bedi. She started acting at the age of 15 when she took a lead role in the original cast of The Late Middle Classes (under the name "Sam Bedi'" [1] [2][3] directed by Harold Pinter and written by Simon Gray. Pinter wrote about Bedi in his introduction to Simon Gray's Key Plays, "The enterprise began with a miracle of casting. The central role (a thirteen-year-old boy) we found very difficult to cast. Suddenly we stumbled upon a fifteen-year-old girl (Sarah Bedi) who passed as a good-looking thirteen-year-old boy. She was wonderful; precise, contained, mysterious."[4]

Bedi trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.[5]

Career

Until 2011, she ran a theatre company, Baz Productions,[6] alongside Catherine Bailey and Emma Luffingham. Baz Productions patrons included John Caird and Dame Harriet Walter.[7]

Television appearances have included: Holby City, The Bill and Casualty. She played Agnes D`Esterre in ITV's production of Affinity directed by Tim Fywell.[8]

She has worked on the stage including at the Royal National Theatre, the Finborough Theatre and Theatre503.[9] From 2007 until 2009 Bedi was part of The Factory Theatre Company.[9] She starred as Yasmin in I am Superhero[10]. Listed under theatre credits on talent agency website, credits "Listed under theatre credits on talent agency website, credits". Archived from the original on 7 December 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2011. directed by Lucy Kerbal and Louise in Cradle Me[11] with Sharon Maughan and Luke Treadaway, directed by Duncan Mcmillan. She won a Critics' Award for Theatre in Scotland for Best Ensemble as part of the cast of The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain[12] directed by Dominic Hill (Traverse Theatre Company/Belgrade Theatre, Coventry/English Touring Theatre).

In 2020 she wrote and directed The Process, a play about deafness.[13][14]

She co-directed a production of Shakespeare's Henry V at the Globe Theatre. [15] [16]

She is working with playwright Shahid Iqbal Khan to collect the stories of South Asian immigrants to the Stoke-on-Trent area and develop them into scripts in a project titled Punjab to the Potteries.[17]

References
  1. Billington, Michael (27 March 1999). "Ten years of solitude". The Guardian.
  2. Taylor, Paul (26 March 1999). "Theatre: A family at war". The Independent on Sunday.
  3. "The Late Middle Classes by Simon Gray, The Palace Theatre Watford, 19 March 1999". Website about Harold Pinter, 'Sam Bedi' under cast list.
  4. Gray, Simon.Key Plays, p viii. 2002 (Quote from introduction by Harold Pinter)
  5. Website of BOVTS graduating years, (Sarah Bedi 2005). "Bristol Old Vic Theatre School: Graduates 1984-2005. History and information about the Gloucestershire village of Winterbourne". Archived from the original on 8 May 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  6. "Baz productions' official website". "Baz productions' official Facebook page". Facebook. "Baz productions' official twitter account".
  7. "Who We Are". Baz Productions Website.
  8. "Sarah Bedi". BFI. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  9. "Sarah Bedi". Sainou website. Archived from the original on 7 December 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  10. "I am Superhero". Off West End.
  11. Trueman, Matt. The Stage Press 2008. Trueman, Matt (6 October 2008). "Cradle Me". The Stage. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008.
  12. "The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain". (where Sarah Bedi is included on cast list)
  13. "Review: The Process (Bunker Theatre) |". WhatsOnStage. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  14. Davis, Clive. "The Process (review) Going out with a disorientating whimper". The Times.
  15. "Shakespeare's Globe celebrates the joy of theatre with its history plays". Financial Times. 13 May 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  16. Wyver, Kate (13 May 2019). "Henry IV Parts 1 and 2/Henry V review – a game of thrones with lots of leather". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  17. Khan, Shehnaz (11 April 2023). "South Asians invited to tell stories for new theatre plays". BBC News. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
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