Sanjay’s passion for the arts started in Secondary School. Having went with his family to see a performance of Heer Ranjha at the Glasgow Tramway and the support of his drama teacher Ilona Wewiorski. He went onto study Acting at City of Glasgow College and undertook a year at RCS with their Introduction to Actor Training Credited Programme. He was then awarded a Drama for 60 Scholarship through the RCS Short Courses department.

Since 2022, Sanjay has been represented by Wintersons Agents in London, under Jessica Jones. A move that has brought much joy and a confidence boost to Sanjay as an actor since the Pandemic.

He is currently working on developing his show about male suicide that he started during his time at RCS during Bridge Week. He has since developed it and performed it with the Space Theatre, Queer Contact at Manchester Contact and Tron Theatre Glasgow’s Outside Eyes Programme. After the latter he was chosen to be the John Mather Trusts’ Rising Star of Scotland Recipient with National Theatre of Scotland, where he is a writer on attachment for 1 year to develop.

He is also developing his first ever stand up routine with poetry weaved through it, this will be a work in progress at The Vaults Festival February 2023.

Finally, he is developing his show “Jalebi” which he wrote during the Pandemic when he was part of the Soho Theatre Writers Lab and the show he wrote during the Traverse Theatre’s POC Writers Programme, “When Will I See You Again?” 

Sanjay ws a Lead Artist until April 2022 on an Immerse Project with Imaginate aswell as being a Trainee Artist on their “Where We Are Project” with Refuweegee until February 2022.  He performed as part of the International Childrens Festival’s Family Encounters Event taking place in the National Museum of Scotland. He continues this passion by being a Short Courses Tutor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

He has had writing published in the monologue anthology “LIT” by Rikki Beadle Blair, launched in May 2022 at the Bush Theatre in London, also poetry published by the Scottish BAME Writers Network.

He is interested in devising and creating theatre with a message or a powerful theme. He has a strong passion in getting diverse voices heard within the arts sector. Sanjay’s work explores the Themes of: Diversity, Race & Ethnicity, Belonging, Autobiography, Verbatim Theatre, Diaspora, Dyslexia, Walking, Sexuality, Socio-Economic Status. He has skills in facilitation in Schools, Workshops, Hospices and in the criminal justice system.

He has performed and worked with various companies and been a part of many workshops too. These include National Theatre of Scotland, Bijli Productions, Tamasha, Dancebase and Mischief La Bas, The Space Arts UK, Rikki Beadle Blair, Yusuf Niazi and more.

For his final year at RCS, he was a proud scholarship recipient from The Underwood Trust and during graduation was awarded the Principals Award for Excellence for School of Drama 2019.

In his freetime Sanjay likes to listen to music, be stuck in a book or going for walks or eating (either alone or with family and friends)