LOOSE WOMAN

multi media show in episodes, 2018

PROTEST

various performances, 2012 onwards

WALK

in response to Delhi bus gang rape 2012 onwards, several performances in schools, colleges, street, living rooms, shopping malls, NGOs, rallies

THE NON STOP FEEL GOOD SHOW

commissioned by Park Hotel for 6-city tour Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, 2011

SMALL FRY

created for Maximum India festival, Kennedy Centre, Washington DC, 2011

RAVANAMA

solo, commissioned by Ramayana festival, Adishakti, Pondicherry, India 2011

QUALITY STREET

solo, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2010

LADY MACBETH

Revisited cross media performance, 2010

ARE YOU HOME LADY MACBETH?

performance art project for Khoj, Delhi, 2008

HAND OVER FIST

perspectives on masculinities cross media performance as launch of UN programme in India, commissioned by UNDP and UNIFEM, Delhi, 2007

HEADS ARE MEANT FOR WALKING INTO

cross media performance, 2005

COMEDY

solo, various event-specific creations, Hindi/English 1992 onwards.

A DEEP FRIED JAM AND A DEEPER FRIED JAM

socio-political cabaret, regenerated versions, 2002 onwards.

DEPARTURES

commissioned by London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT),London, 1999

4-WHEEL-DRIVE-“COME-TO-ME- MR.SHARMA”- BODY-FAT-MURDERED-SHOW

comedy in episodes, several versions, 1998 onwards

RAINMAKER

solo, inspired by Assamese short story, Delhi,1998

THE JOB

solo, based on a short-story by Bertolt Brecht, commissioned by Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi,1997.

KHOL DO

solo, dance-theatre, inspired by Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story, Delhi, 1993.

STREET THEATRE

as founder-member of group,‘ Theatre Union’, scripted, directed, performed Om Swaha on dowry and Dafa no.180 on the Indian law on rape, several shows in colleges, parks, non-formal spaces, 1979-82

PANDITA RAMABAI 2009

SCIVA AND JAGLI 2003

DILLI SULTANAT 1995

IGLOO-IGLOO 1996

BHAGAT SINGH 1986

Participatory programmes for children - conceived, scripted and directed around themes of history and society for National School of Drama Theatre-in Education company

DRAMA SYLLABUS

formulated for B.El.Ed (Bachelor in Elementary Education), Delhi University, 2008

DRAMA SYLLABUS CLASSES

I – XII, for central govt. body NCERT (National Council for Educational Resources and Training, Delhi), Member, drafting committee, 2007

STORY SPINNERS’ AND PIECE AT ANY PRICE

Co-devised, performed and toured theatre shows member, Perspectives Theatre Company, Nottingham, England, to different parts of England, Nottingham, England, 1984

HEIRETIKOS, OR THE ONE WHO CHOOSES

Leeds Playhouse TIE Company, as member, devised and/or performed in, Leeds 1983; performed in ‘Pow-Wow’, Leeds, England, 1982

SCHOOL TEACHER WORKSHOPS

for National School of Drama and schools in Delhi 2003 onwards; for Delhi University, 2003 onwards; and other teacher training institutions all over India, 1986 onwards

1961 onwards
Training in Delhi and Kerala, specialising in the male role. Several performances in India and abroad of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata as well as Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’. Krishna, Karna, Ravana, Arjuna, Hidimba, Hanuman, Bhima, Damayanti, Surpanakha, Draupadi, Desdemona

Among others, played leading role in ‘Dream of Reason’, Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ (1988) and ‘Twelfth Night’ (1970) Henrik Ibsen’s ‘A Dolls House’ (1971, Bertolt Brecht’s ‘The Mother’(1971) and ‘St. Joan of the Stockyards’ (1972), Federico Garcia Lorca’s 'House of Bernada Alba’ (1978); Maxim Gorky’s ‘Viy’; Aphra Behn’s ‘The Rover’ (invited by Womens’Playhouse Trust, London, 1999); ’Desdemona’, for Theatreworks, Singapore, toured Singapore, Adelaide, Hamburg, Munich, Fukuoka (2000). The play Directors included Amal Allana, Anamika Haksar, Anuradha Kapur, Barry John, Jules Wright, Ong Keng Sen

LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THEATRE (LIFT)

London, U.K., 1997, 1999

SAHMAT

several comedy shows, 1993 onwards

AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL

Durham, USA, 1992

NANDIKAR

Kolkata 1997

PRITHVI

Mumbai, 1997, 2003

SAHITYA KALA PARISHAD

Delhi, 1998

AMMAN THEATRE FESTIVAL

Amman, Jordan, 1998

THE OTHER FESTIVAL

Chennai 1998, 1999

SANGEET NATAK AKADEMI

Bangalore Trichur 1998, 1999

CENTRE FOR PERFORMANCE RESEARCH

Univ. Of Aberystwyth Wales, UK, 1999

DANCESCENEN FESTIVAL

Munich Germany, 2000

NATIONAL SCHOOL OF DRAMA BHARAT RANG MAHOTSAV

Delhi, 2000, '02, '06, '07, '10,'11,'12

RESTLESS GRAVITY ABERYSTWYTH

Wales, England, 2000

KOBENHAVNS INTERNATIONALE TEATER

Copenhagen, Denmark 2000, 2001

KIASMA MUSEUM HELSINKI

Finland, 2001

JOMBA!

Durban, S.Africa, 2002

POORVA WOMENS FESTIVAL

Delhi, 2003

KULAVAI

Chennai, 2003

HOUSE OF WORLD CULTURES

Berlin, Germany, 2003

RANGASHANKARA

Bangalore, 2005

THEATRE DU NORD

Lille, France, 2006

KAMPNAGEL HAMBURG

Germany 2002, 2007

FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR

2006

KHOJ

performance art, Delhi, 2008

NATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL

Thiruvanathapuram, India, 2009

ARCO FAIR VALLADOLID

Spain, 2009

RAMAYANA FESTIVAL ADISHAKTI

Pondicherry, 2011

NEW PARK FESTIVAL

6 city-tour of comedy, 2011

NEELAN TIRUCHELVAN TRUST

Srilanka, 2012

WOMEN'S THEATRE FESTIVAL

Chandigarh, 2012

RAMAYANA FESTIVAL

Cologne, Germany, 2012

IGNITE! DANCE FESTIVAL

Delhi, 2010, 2012

ITFOK (INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL OF KERALA)

Trissur, Kerala, 2013, 2014

MOVING SPACES

Kolkata, 2013

FEMALE VOICES

Cologne, Germany, 2016

DRAMATURGIES OF CULTURAL TRANSLATION

Amsterdam, 2016

THEATRE BONN

Bonn, 2016

MARCH DANCE

Chennai, 2019

ARTISTS’ WORKSHOP

Kasauli, India 1981, 1982

ILEA (INNER LONDON EDUCATION AUTHORITY) CHILDRENS WORKSHOP

London, 1983

KATHAKALI WORKSHOPS

U.K, Germany, USA, Singapore, India 1984 onwards

NEW DIRECTIONS IN INDIAN DANCE

Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi, 1993

FAIZ CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS

Lahore 1988

STREET PLAYS FOR COLLEGES

Delhi University, 1987, ’88, ’97, 2000, ’01, ’02,

WOMAN IN US

all-India theatre performers’ workshop, Mumbai, 1996

THEATREWORKS

Kathakali workshop, Singapore, 1998

DRAMA-IN-EDUCATION

various schools in Delhi, Bangalore, Andhra Pradesh, 2002 onwards

PRAKRITI FOUNDATION

on gender, Chennai, 2002

CONTINUUM ARTS PROJECT

Luang Prabang, Laos, 2003

KATTAIKUTHU YOUTH THEATRE SCHOOL

Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu, 2003

WOMEN UNLIMITED

young writers workshop, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, 2005

SANGAT

womens orgn., on gender, Kathmandu, 2007

NIREEKSHA

womens’ group, workshop for children, Kottayam, 2005

PRITHVI

young people’s theatre workshop, Mumbai 2006

PUNJAB UNIVERSITY

Dept. of Theatre, Chandigarh, 2001, 2007

NATIONAL SCHOOL OF DRAMA

Madurai '99, Nagaland '08, Delhi '12

SRISHTI SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

Bangalore, 2008, 2009

INDIA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS

seminar and teachers workshop, Bangalore, 2010

THEATRE PROFESSIONALS

Mumbai, 2011

U.S PERFORMANCE - CUM - WORKSHOP TOUR

Univ. of California (Irvine, Berkeley), Smith College, NYU, Barnard College, 2013, Stanford University, 2015, NSD TIE Institute, Agartala, Tripura – Drama in the classroom, 2012, 2013

TISS, TATA INST. OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Mumbai, 2014

WARWICK UNIVERSITY

Summer School, teaching, 2016

KOLKATA SANVED

dance movement therapy workshop, Kolkata Jan. 29 - Feb. 4, 2017

SAHMAT

for visiting Palestinian actors of Freedom School, Delhi, 2015

WILLIAMS COLLEGE

USA, Apr. 2022

THE ROVER

play, Open University, BBC, London, 1994

VOICE-OVER

various films

PORTRAIT OF MAYA KRISHNA RAO

film, Doordarshan, Public Service Broadcast, India, 1997

MAYA KRISHNA RAO

video notes, Sparrow Women’s’ Documentation Centre, Mumbai

WOMEN WHO DARED

ed. Ritu Menon, National Book Trust, 2002. (Maya featured as one among twenty notable living Indian women of last fifty years).

SANGEET NATAK AKADEMI AWARD

Government of India, 2010

AUSTRALIA COUNCIL OF THE ARTS

Australia, grant 2021-22

NATIONAL SCHOOL OF DRAMA THEATRE-IN-EDUCATION

Company, member, advisory committee, Gati Summer Dance Residency, Advisor, Delhi, since 2008

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING

(NCERT) – member, drama syllabus committee, 2006, Delhi University Academic Council, elected member, 1982

MODERN SCHOOL

Delhi, 1970

SOCIOLOGY B.A. (HONS)

Miranda House, Delhi University, Delhi, 1974

POLITICAL STUDIES, M.A.

Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, 1977

THEATRE ARTS, M.A.

Leeds University, Leeds, England, 1983

DRAMA - IN - EDUCATION, DIPLOMA

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 2012

VISITING FACULTY

Ashoka University, 2020 -

PROFESSOR

Shiv Nadar University, 2013 - 2017

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Dept. of Acting, National School of Drama Delhi, 1985-90

ACTOR-TEACHER

Perspectives Theatre Company, Nottingham, England with a brief to create and tour programmes of community interest in Nottingham, UK, 1982-83

ACTOR-TEACHER

Leeds Playhouse Theatre-in-Education Company, Leeds, England, to create theatre programmes for schools, Leeds, UK, 1983-84

LECTURER

Political Science, Kamala Nehru College, Delhi University, 1977-85.