Nitin Sawhney

For the National:

A Tupperware of Ashes

Nitin Sawhney, CBE, is a composer, musician and producer. He has scored extensively for theatre, dance and video games.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: A Tupperware of Ashes

Other theatre includes: Dystopian Dream (based on his own album), zero degrees (also New York City Center) and iTMOi for Sadler’s Wells; A Disappearing Number for Complicité; Entanglement for the Royal Opera House; Bahok for the Royal Ballet of China; Vertical Road at Leicester Curve and Boston Ballet; and TeZukA for Eastman, Sadler’s Wells and Bunkamura, Tokyo

Wonders of the Monsoon, The Flatshare, Traitors and Human Planet

Film

Tiger, What’s Love Got to Do with It?, My Name is Andrea, The Colour Room, Vendetta, Winter Ball, Settlers, A Girl from Mogadishu, Mowgli, Breathe, The Namesake, Anita and Me and A Throw of Dice

Music

Identity, Immigrants, Dystopian Dream, OneZero, Last Days of Meaning, London Undersound, Philtre, Human, Prophesy, Beyond Skin, Displacing the Priest, Migration and Spirit Dance

Awards

zero degrees – New York Performance and Dance Award

Nitin Sawhney is an associate artist of Sadler’s Wells and trustee for Complicité. He is a recipient of over 20 international awards, a CBE, an Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award, eight independent honorary doctorates and has made over 20 studio albums, 11 under his own name.

(Updated September 2024)