Episodes Broadcast: 2020

Nida Manzoor lived in Singapore for the first decade of her life, before her family moved to London. Her parents instilled a love of music in their children but, although Manzoor believed at a young age that it would become her trade, she ultimately attended University College London and graduated with a degree in politics in 2011. She had intended to parlay her education into a career in law, but her involvement with the university's film society had inspired a passion for writing and directing. As such, Manzoor instead found a job as a production runner, and she soon secured the funding to make several short films during 2013 and 2014. She worked as a director's assistant, and she also contributed scripts to the children's series Jamillah And Aladdin and Dixi.

Manzoor's first assignment as a television director came on several episodes of the sitcom Enterprice in 2017 and 2018, followed by a pilot called Hounslow Diaries. She then made two 2020 Doctor Who episodes featuring Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor: the historical adventure Nikola Tesla's Night Of Terror and Fugitive Of The Judoon, which introduced Jo Martin as the “Fugitive Doctor”. Her family's passion for music inspired Manzoor to develop We Are Lady Parts, for which she was both the writer and director, and which was broadcast to critical acclaim during 2021. She also took writing and directing credits on her debut movie, 2023's Polite Society.