zaazaa
When suicidal teenager Taro travels to America to meet their Hannibal-loving internet friend, what they don’t expect is to return home with their all-consuming anger legitimised and vented. Amidst working out their stranger-danger internet friend anxieties, Taro and Lector confront abandoned campsites, run-down murder motels, Japanese internment and Death Valley under the stars.
Nemo is developing zaazaa as part of New Earth’s Professional Writer’s Programme 2020. This play was workshopped at the National Theatre Studios (dir. Andrea Ling).
A short excerpt was performed as part of New Earth Theatre’s New Work festival, which you can watch here:
TYPE SPECIMEN – short extract presented at Queer Upstairs – Royal Court
Type Specimen (dir. Myah Jeffers). Newt and Farah are presented with a challenge for their next heist: how far can they exploit the cracks of a 19th century cis, white English naturalist before things go wrong?
[The Cobbled Streets of Geneva]
Produced by Ellandar Productions & 45 North
A queer British-Muslim romantic comedy. Adham is a silent and brooding middle-aged tragedy, standing outside a Mosque in North London. Waiting. It’s raining. Tea, an umbrella, and friendship arrive. Winner of VAULT 2020 Origins Award for Outstanding New Work.
Thankless Invisibility – Creating Apart
Produced by Exit Pursued by Panda
Dear Tomorrow – Hope From Home
Produced by Northern Stage & Actors Touring Company
Content information: contains strong language, recounting of experiences as a patient in a hospital ward, references to transgender discrimination, gender identity, medical prodceures and unwanted sexual advances.
To the Stag Dance
Produced by MPTheatricals
Part of MPT’s LGBTQ+ History Month celebration #QUEERME – a brand new song exploring the queer history & experiences of 19th Century Cowboys. Created by Nemo Martin & Hilmi Jaidin and performed by Ashley Goh.
It’s Not a Game to Someone (2020, Writer) – Commissioned as part of #WeRNotVirus
ASIAN PIRATE MUSICAL
ASIAN PIRATE MUSICAL is a devised musical featuring five seafaring Asian characters across four time periods, intertwining the lives of 14th century Muslim diplomat Zheng He, 19th century pirate queen Shih Yang, a 21st century survivor and 24th century queer space revolutionaries.
When an unnatural mist rolls across time, five pirates are displaced across time and must navigate the high seas as one. Together they contest and complicate the idea of ‘Asia’ and its diasporas with their individual and collective histories and traditions, and reimagine the future of mixed-race identities and cultures. Through an experimental blend of traditional indigenous sounds, 21st century Asian pop, and musical influence from diasporas, ASIAN PIRATE MUSICAL explores freedom, found families, and finding fun in the face of our future.
in Lockdown we were funded by Arts Council England to continue R&D with Papergang Theatre. You can follow our progress here: https://www.papergang.co.uk/asian-pirate-musical
Pitch & Cologne – longlisted for BBC Writer’s Room, shortlisted for Charlie Hartill Award, American Shakespeare New Contemporaries Award.
Pitch & Cologne
© Nemo Martin
Pitch & Cologne
© Nemo Martin
Pitch & Cologne
© Nemo Martin
Aro Thru The (2018, Writer) – short play commissioned by IVO Theatre, performed at Hackney Showrooms for the Outrageous! Festival.
Outrageous
© Ali Wright
Outrageous
© Ali Wright
Hold Me in Thine Eyes (2018, Writer) – play extract performed at Omnibus Theatre.