Nurul Momen

Nurul Momen was a Bangladeshi playwright, educator, director, broadcast personality, and poet. He served as a faculty member in the capacities of professor and dean at the faculty of Law in the University of Dhaka. He is called "Father of Bangladeshi theatre" and "Natyaguru of Bangladesh" (The Grand Teacher of Drama and Theatre).

Momen was born on 25 November 1908. His father was Nurul Arefin, a physician and Zamindar (landlord) in Alfadanga, of the then Jessore district. After the foundation of All India Radio in Dhaka, 1939, Momen picked up on the opportunity of the new medium and became its first Muslim author.

In 1941 he wrote and directed the comedy Rupantor (Transformation) for the radio. With its progressive plot and a female main character it differed vastly form traditional Muslim plays and was actually the first modern drama of Bangladesh.