Sid Sagar

Sid Sagar is an actor, playwright and screenwriter.

Theatre 

For the National: The Father and the Assassin

In London’s West End: Cabaret; The Starry Messenger (Eastern Eye Award for Best Actor); the RSC’s Queen Anne.

Other productions include: The Book of Dust: Le Belle Sauvage and Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre; The Invisible Hand and White Teeth at Kiln Theatre; hang at Sheffield Crucible; The Tempest, Cymbeline, The Oresteia, The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare’s Globe; The Invisible Hand at the Tricycle Theatre; Treasure at the Finborough Theatre; The History Boys on UK Tour; True Brits for HighTide at Edinburgh and the Bush Theatre; Eternal Love for ETT; and Orpheus and Eurydice for National Youth Theatre.

TV

 Big Mood, Best Interests, CBeebies: As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe, Slow Horses, The Capture, Anatomy of a Scandal, Trying, A Discovery of Witches, Unprecedented: Going Forward, Silent Witness, Wild Bill, Press, EastEnders, Strike: Career of Evil, The Hollow Crown and The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies.

Film

 The Batman, Belfast, Death on the Nile, Cruella, Dolittle, Artemis Fowl, Murder on the Orient Express and Ready Player One.

Radio

The Wire Cutters, The Certificate, Dangerous Liaisons, This is Your Country Now Too: Vijay and ECCo.

Writing

As a playwright, Sid Sagar is currently under commission to the Almeida Theatre and an Associate at Middle Child. He has previously been part of Hampstead Theatre’s INSPIRE scheme and the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. As a screenwriter, he was one of 12 writers selected for 4Screenwriting 2023 and is developing a co-written sitcom with Slam Films and Sky. His short film Baked Beans was produced by BFI NETWORK.

(Updated April 2023. Photo by Harry Livingstone)