Shama Rahman is a musician, story teller, poet, actress and as a scientist has a firm basis in science and its wonderment. Born in United Arab Emirates to a Bengali medical doctor and classical singer and having lived on three different continents and travelled on more, she has strived to always marry the different strands of her passions and interests together and this weaving, intricate, inter-linking and -dependent style is apparent in all strands of her work.

Her production company The Gung Ho Down, has produced and curated many events from the purely musical to the theatrical to all-round cross-disciplinary 3D experiences producing specially commissioned music, dance, photographic exhibitions and live animation with partnerships with the Southbank Centre, Rich Mix and The Drik Gallery to name a few.

Shama is currently starring in the lead role in bilingual 26-part BBC drama series Bishaash showing on Zee Cafe and Sky, and she has appeared in the theatrical production of Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age, for Tara Arts since.

As a singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist, Shama performed material from her solo album as part of The Alchemy Festival at the Southbank Centre. She has performed as a solo artist and with her band and various guest artists in Bangladesh, England and France at gigs and festivals including Fete de La Musique, SilFest, SpitalFields Festival and Secret Garden Party, Wilderness Festival and One Love Festival. Shama has also collaborated with musicians from all over the world notably with the London Sitar Ensemble at Southbank, London Bulgarian Choir and The Doves at the Electric Proms at the Roundhouse.

Having studied Molecular Biology at UCL, she is now doing a PhD at Imperial College, Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Music in the cross-disciplinary field of Complexity Science using mathematics to study the Neuroscientific systems of Musical Creativity.