Punam Ramchurn's first episode of Coronation Street aired on Wednesday 21st July, 2021 at 7.30pm.
Punam graduated from Salford University with BA Hons Television and Radio, continued to complete MA at John Moores University in Screenwriting. She was a finalist of Oldham Coliseum's BANG initiative in conjunction with BBC Writersroom for her first script ‘Jesus Christ and Chocolate Pudding' which was staged by Waah Productions at Tristian Bates Theatre London.
Her writing has been developed by Everyman Theatre, M6 Theatre Company, Kali Theatre Company and Oldham Coliseum. In 2008 she was short-listed for ‘Digital Departures' to develop feature film Arabian Nightz, she also developed ‘Jobshop' with BBC Writersroom and was on the BBC Northern Voices scheme for her television script ‘Singh for Ice-cream'. In 2012 received her first TV commission for CBBC program ‘Stepping Up' one off drama called ‘Tale of Two Cities'.
She worked as Director for Rochdale Literature and ideas Festival and has previously worked as Senior Literature Development Officer for Oldham Libraries and RAW Co-ordinator for Contact Theatre.
She is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/missprpr
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