Sid is an award-winning actor, playwright and screenwriter from a British Indian background. He’s currently writing for the Almeida Theatre, Middle Child, Mammoth Screen and Slam Films. He was selected for the Channel 4 Screenwriting Course and was an Episodic Fellow at the Oxbelly retreat in Greece. He’s based in London.
ACTOR
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WINNER Eastern Eye Award for Best Actor for The Starry Messenger
WINNER AudioFile Earphones Award for Victory City
“Sid Sagar [is] extraordinarily striking” - The Independent on White Teeth
“…there are moments of wry laughter - most of them involving Sid Sagar” - Evening Standard on The Starry Messenger
“And there is a very funny turn from Sid Sagar as the student gleaming with evangelical zeal” - The Guardian on The Starry Messenger
“Sid Sagar is sweetly troubled as the gullible jailer trading potatoes” - Daily Mail on The Invisible Hand
“There’s nice work too from…Sid Sagar gleaming as Godse’s zealous partner-in-crime” - Variety on The Father and the Assassin
“A strong cast circles them. As Reverend Hale, Sid Sagar journeys from an almost glib evangelical-style preacher to a man deeply wracked by regrets” - The Stage on The Crucible
“Sid Sagar narrates the novel with admirable lightness…[his] delivery brings with it the requisite bounce and tongue-in-cheekiness to create a hugely pleasurable and immersive flow” - Financial Times on Victory City
“…narrated beautifully by Sid Sagar” - Washington Post on The Anarchy
WRITER (TV)
HOT WHEELS
6 x 60’ thriller in development with Mammoth Screen.
BEAUTIFUL GAME
6 x 60’ thriller in development with Mammoth Screen.
MAN ISLAND
6 x 45’ comedy thriller in development with Slam Films. Co-written with Josh Berry & Daniel Lapaine.
PLAYTIME TOWERS
Writers room for 30 x 22’ series. Produced by BBC Studios for CBeebies.
CASH ONLY
60’ Script & Series Outline for Channel 4 Screenwriting Course 2023. Script edited by Philip Shelley.
FALLING UP
Writers room & 30’ Script commission for Slam Films & Channel 4. Showrunner: Stephen Mangan.
TOGETHER, APART
30’ Script & Treatment commission for Slam Films & Sky Studios. Co-written with Daniel Lapaine.
PENETRATING THE PAVLOVS
30’ Script & Treatment commission for Slam Films & Britbox. Co-written with Daniel Lapaine.
THE SINGLE MUMS’ MANSION
Additional material on a 30’ comedy for Slam Films.
WRITER (FILM)
BAKED BEANS
10’ short produced by BFI NETWORK.
OFFICIAL SELECTION Bolton International Film Festival 2022
OFFICIAL SELECTION Cambridge Film Festival 2022
OFFICIAL SELECTION London Indian Film Festival 2023
SHORTLIST Film the House 2024
RUSH
7’ short produced by The Mono Box as part of RESET THE STAGE.
“I was also particularly struck by the courage of Sid Sagar's Rush, blisteringly performed by Danny Kirrane, which takes the format of a police interview and cleverly uses it to reveal both the fragility of a man's mind and the tragedy of racism” - WhatsOnStage
WRITER (STAGE)
BITING POINT
Full length play commission for Middle Child.
REMEMBER, REMEMBER
Full length play commission for Almeida Theatre.
JOHN FROM HEMEL
Full length play developed with Hampstead Theatre.
LONGLIST Verity Bargate Award 2024
MIDDLE MEN
Full length play developed with Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab.
LONGLIST Theatre503 International Playwriting Award 2023
DARK FACES IN THE NIGHT
Full length play.
WINNER Rose Theatre Kingston’s New Writing Festival 2019
SHORTLIST Finborough Theatre’s ETPEP Award 2019
DISRUPTION
Short play commissioned for the Kensington Karavan Festival.
PAPA
Short play produced by Theatre503 and The Mono Box. Published by Oberon Books.
THE AFFAIRS OF MEN
Short play produced by Tamasha.
RAJ
Short play produced by Little Pieces of Gold at Southwark Playhouse.
WRITER (AUDIO)
MIDDLE MEN
45’ Script commission for BBC Radio 4. TX: June 2024. Directed by Anne Isger.
POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION
15’ Script for Soho Theatre.
SHORTLIST OVERHEARD Podcast Competition, co-produced by Soho Theatre, NBCUniversal International Studios & StoryHunter
LAND SKEINS: WINTER
15’ Script commission for no more superheroes & Jump Spark.
SCRIPT READING
Bush Theatre
Hampstead Theatre
FACILITATION & MENTORING
The Squint Playwriting Award
London Bubble
Emil Dale Academy
University of Notre Dame
Reveal Theatre Company
Arts Emergency
Tutors Green
EDUCATION & TRAINING
The Residency (2024-25)
BAFTA Connect (2023-24)
Oxbelly Episodic Program (2023)
4Screenwriting (2023)
Genesis Almeida Writers Programme (2022-23)
Hampstead Theatre INSPIRE (2022-23)
London Library Emerging Writers Programme (2021-22)
Rifco Associates (2020-21)
Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab (2019-20)
The Mono Box PLAYSTART (2018)
First Class (Hons), History, University of Bristol (2015)
Headshot by Harry Livingstone