Osman Baig

Osman is an actor, journalist and playwright. As an actor, his credits include Julius Caesar & Coriolanus for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Richard III alongside Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave for both the Almeida Theatre in London & the Ulysses Festival in Croatia. 

Osman has also worked as a journalist for more than twelve years, with staff roles at CNN, Sky News and Al Jazeera among others - covering virtually every major world news story as a writer, producer or reporter. 

As a playwright, his first production Fake News received huge acclaim upon its debut in London in 2018, going on to sell out at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019, and being listed as a critics' choice by the Guardian and Telegraph newspapers. 

Osman was a George Viner Journalism Scholar at City University, which he attended after graduating in English Law and French Law from the Universities of Manchester and Burgundy. He later trained in acting and theatre at Drama Studio London.