Sarmad Sehbai is a playwright and director whose work has appeared on television and in theatres throughout Pakistan. His tele-film Fankar Gali (Standby Street, 1991) and documentary Moghuls of the Road (1999) have been variously screened in London, Moscow, and Oslo. Bachon Ka Park (Children’s Park, 1989), his play on political prisoners, won the Pakistan Television Best Play Award. His dramatic adaptations of Saadat Hassan Manto, the most celebrated short-story writer of Pakistan, have been televised on Pakistan Television and GEO TV. Three of his drama serials have been aired by leading channels of Pakistan (GEO TV 2007 and 2016) and Hum TV (2008). He has published two collections of plays and four collections of poetry in Urdu. He lives in Connecticut.
