Lunch with...Taqi Nazeer

Lunch with... Taqi Nazeer

Join us at the Glad Cafe for lunch and the chance to find out more about actor and writer Taqi Nazeer. Bijli Co-Artistic Director Shilpa T-Hyland will lead a chat with Taqi about his career, learning moments, and experiences in the arts industry, before opening up to questions from you. Vegan lunch provided in your ticket price.

Part of Threads: our programme of workshops and events supporting the South-Asian community in Glasgow to try new activities and develop skills in theatre and performance. The workshops explore storytelling through multiple aspects of performance including movement, voice, character, design and more!

Workshops are 16+

Book your ticket now to ensure your spot. Lunches will be limited to 8 people.

You will get a confirmation email to confirm your lunch order.

If you cannot attend the event after booking let us know so we can give the slot to someone else.

Who is it for?

If you identify as South Asian and you are curious about performance or theatre then Threads is for you! You don’t need to have any previous experience to attend our workshops or Lunch with... events and you can attend as many as you’d like or just one that interests you.

What to expect?

All of our Threads events are welcoming and inclusive spaces. Each Lunch with... is 1hr long. Please arrive at 12.45 to get settled. The event will begin at 1pm.

About Taqi

Taqi is an actor, playwright, presenter and voice over artist. He wrote and performed in two sell-out theatre shows; Rishta; An arranged marriage comedy and Jinnistan: A South-Asian supernatural horror story.

Taqi’s work can be seen on iPlayer and ITVX in crime dramas - ANNIKA, Shetland, The Control Room, SIX-FOUR and most notably as a guest lead in the special, format-breaking Casualty episode “How to Save a Life” celebrating 75 years of the NHS.

Currently Taqi voices the character of crazed Artificer ‘Eisen Iyer’ in the hit Cyber Punk series ‘The Kingmaker Podcast’.

Theatre credits: Macbeth: An Undoing (Edinburgh Lyceum / Theatre for a New Audience NYC) The Gun Powder Plot (Layered Reality) Jinnistan (Oran Mor) The Enemy (NTS) An Edinburgh Christmas Carol (Lyceum) Passing Places (Dundee Rep), Rishta (Oran Mor), The Assessment (Shows on a Shoestring), Deranged Marriage (Rifco Arts), Stowaway (Analogue Theatre), The Domestic Crusaders (Tara Arts), Beautiful Burnout (Frantic Assembly)

TV: The Replacement (BBC) Scenes for Survival (NTS/BBC Scotland) ANNIKA (Alibi TV) Shetland (ITV) The Control Room (BBC) SIX-FOUR (ITV)

Film: I SWEAR (Independent feature film) Ghostlight (EIF/NTS) Lock (Wee films) Homecoming (GMAC) Urban Anxieties (CH4)

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