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Adam Kashmiry
JoinedAugust 9, 2019
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Adam Kashmiry is a Performer, Experimental Mover, Drag Artist, Story-teller and a Queer Activist. Credits include: ADAM (Fringe Festival, Battersea Arts Centre, Shedinburgh 2020 Online Festival, BBC & BBC Arts), Everyman (Bombito Productions), Who We Are (Bombito Productions). Ghost Light (National Theatre of Scotland & Edinburgh International Festival), The Years That Changed Modern Scotland (BBC), The Unseen Child (Hopscotch Theatre), Take Me To A Place Of Safety ( Sanctuary Queer Arts), Life In The C*ntry (Glasgow Buzzcut), Here We Stay (Citizens’ Theatre Community Company & Scottish Refugee Council), Time for T.E.A (LGBT Youth Scotland. Tedx Talk Glasgow 2018. The stage version of Adam, was awarded a Fringe First, Herald Angel Award and was shortlisted for Amnesty’s International Award for Free Speech, then nominated for an Offies Award London in 2019. The production was adapted to a ‘one-handler’ show as part of the Shedinburgh Online Festival, and Kashmiry was awarded The Infallible Theatrical Excellence Award for his Performance. Adam remained in the title role for the film version, which went on to win the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Television Scripted in 2021.

ADAM

Imagine that being yourself could get you killed. Adam is a play written by Frances Poet and directed by Cora Bissett based on the real-life experiences of Adam Kashmiry, an Egyptian man forced to leave his country for being transgender. A two-person play, Adam is played in his two physicalities....
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