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.