My Work
PAID COMMISSIONS ETC...
RIFCO ASSOCIATES COMMISSION (May 2025 - January 2026)
I'm thrilled to be part of Rifco Theatre Company's Associates Programme — my first commission writing a full-length play drawn from my own lived experience. Windrush Roti Stop follows Nell, a queer, mixed-heritage teen who skips school to reconnect with her estranged grandmother at a crumbling roti shop in Deptford. Like Nell, I'm Indo-Caribbean British and have often felt suspended between identities — too brown, too queer, too disconnected. This play explores intergenerational trauma, migration, queerness, and what it means to belong when your history is fragmented. As part of Rifco's programme supporting LGBTQIA+ voices, I'm developing the piece through mentorships, workshops, and masterclasses, culminating in a professional showcase.
TEA BREAK THEATRE FILM PROJECT (March - August 2025, London Bubble Theatre)
Devising a film with London Bubble's Tea Break Theatre older adult group. Resulting in the film MURDER ON THE MARY ROSE, a mockumentary murder mystery, which I shot and edited.
We had 12 90 minutes sessions over 12 weeks to come up with the concept, build character, story and film. All performances are improvised. Overall there was a gorgeous 4 hours of incredible footage from the artists that was cut down into a 30 minute film. It was screened at the BFI.
A PRACTICAL GUIDE ON HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD WHEN NO ONE F***ING ELSE IS (15 - 19 April & 2 - 3 May 2025, Tara Theatre)
I was brought in to work with Tara's Young Company to write their Spring Show about climate change, and how it is disproportionately effecting people from the global south. Over five weeks, I worked with director Gavin Joseph to hold five three-hour sessions. We brought a simple story setup into the room, each young company member formed characters through devising exercises, prompts and homework. Writing the play in four weeks was intense - but it felt possible because of the honesty, safety, and care in the room held by Gavin.
The show earned a five-star review and made history at Tara Theatre by selling out the entire run.
DOUGH, Bush Theatre Commission
I was commissioned by Bush Theatre and Sonia Friedman Productions as part of the Radical Love series to write Dough, which had a sharing at the Duke of York's Theatre during Shifters' West End run. Dough is the first short play I've written rooted in my own lived experience — which is both exhilarating and terrifying. I'm still developing it. The play explores what it means to be British Chinese Indo-Caribbean and queer. At its heart, it's about unmasking, about learning to love when the world has tried to shape you before you've had a chance to define yourself.
ITV DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
6-months of mentoring from Pia Masters, Head of Development at Happy Prince, a drama label under ITV Studios. As part of the scheme, we are developing my TV pilot script THE UNDERCURRENT, a subversive horror story exposing the consequences of stifling ancestral trauma to assimilate into British society from a queer Indo Caribbean perspective.
LANDING BOLTS
In 2022, I was commissioned to write Landing Bolts, the first in-house project under Sita Thomas's leadership as Artistic Director of Fio Theatre. The play follows a tight-knit group of QPOC skaters whose coming-of-age story is interrupted by the looming threat of deportation. Developed with Welsh global majority young people, Landing Bolts emerged from a 4 week R&D. It asks: what does it mean to grow up in a country that can revoke your citizenship without warning? How do we find hope when home is fragile and communities are under threat? Landing Bolts is still in development, with plans to tour.
More info here: https://www.wearefio.org.uk/landingbolts
DEVELOPING YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE GRANT
DYCP grant to take 6 months out to develop my writing craft. Researching my ancestral history; Chinese & Indian Indentured labourers in Guyana (1838 - 1917). Exploring how to use the Horror genre to authentically portray my relationship to this research period.
SOUTH LONDON STORIES
I am commissioned by London Bubble Theatre to run playwriting sessions for people who have experience with the criminal justice system and people with experience of the care system. In these sessions, I either guide the artist to write their play, or write their play based on the work they create in the sessions. These monologues are made into films.
OCO-2 (unproduced)
Originally written on the the Royal Court Writing Group. Suba Das chose to direct it for Hightide's Inventing the Future Festival last year. The play is also ACE supported, was the runner-up for the RSL Sky Art's Award, longlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award, and got me onto the C4screenwritiing course against almost 3000 other scripts. Please email me if you're interested in reading it - nicolelatchana@hotmail.com
Dr Price has introduced a radical population control policy to restore the earth's optimal temperature. Despite being told her baby has been aborted, Lucy is convinced her baby is still alive. But when the two women come face-to-face Lucy learns getting her child back will trigger a climate apocalypse.
'Right now, you are not you. You have enough hormones in your body to attack an army of bulls,
because you think you'll win. You aren't capable of making this decision logically, let me make it for you.'
A play about instinct. A play about reason. A play about love.
Channel 4 Screenwriting: Hotties in Hell, Pilot for 8 x 60" returnable TV series
A Love Island murder mystery thriller commissioned as part of the Channel4 Screenwriting Course run by Philip Shelly:
45 North Commission: Choking Hazard
A play about memory, trauma, and queer joy. Commissioned by 45North. Shortlisted for Theatre503 Five writing programme.
A MAP TO YOU: 20-minute Play
Commissioned by The Dot Collective. Writing a play based on people's experiences with dementia. I carried out interviews and drama games throughout the 6-month process, adapting each session to the participants' needs. The play ran at Longfield Hall, a community space in Brixton, as an immersive walk-through theatre experience. https://www.thedotcollective.com/amaptoyou
Milly's Mum
monologue, 11minutes, June 2020
One of ten winners of the 'Love in the Time of Corona Monologue' competition from M6Theatre.
Filmed and written during lockdown.
Milly's Mum says she will never die, her scrubs & mask are impenetrable. Milly wants to believe her. But Milly watches the news.
Writer: Nicole Latchana | Performer: Lizzie Wilson | Director: Sarah Atherton
Accidentally On Purpose
monologue, 6minutes, May 2020
One of 25 winners of the 'Women in Lockdown Monologue' competition from Popelei Theatre.
Filmed and written during lockdown.
About the cis-lesbian experience.
Writer: Nicole Latchana | Performer: Florence Howard
Fennel Spiked Lamb
duologue, 20minutes, 2017
A short play about modern slavery.
Performed at The Bunker Theatre as part of the Bunker Without Borders Festival
Writer: Nicole Latchana | Performers: Leila Nashef & Omar Baroud
2019-2020
Dutty Wine
A play about Carnival and Coming out. Wrote as a Rapid Response to J'Ouvert at the Theatre503. Directed by Kelechi Okafor
Starring Diana Yekinni & Bruna Campos