Sankar Venkateswaran

Sankar Venkateswaran(born 1979) is an Indian theatre director, maker, producer, dramaturge, actor and composer who graduated with a first rank in theatre direction from Calicut University School of Drama & Fine Arts, Thrissur in 2002 and Intercultural Theatre Institute (formerly Theatre Training and Research Programme), Singapore in 2006. In 2007 he founded Theatre Roots & Wings and produced and directed Quick Death (2007), Sahyande Makan - The Elephant Project (2008), Urubhangam (2009), Neerina Thana (2010) and Neerina Nilu Thana (2011) His latest work is Shogo Ohta’s The Water Station (2011~12), co-produced by Theatre Roots & Wings and The Japan Foundation, New Delhi, with an all-India cast, which traveled across the country, and received critical acclaim.Sankar directed Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken(2012) as a wordless adaptation of the play, his Guruthilathe Nadatha Galike(2013) and adaptation of Beckett's short story The Lost Ones(2014)are all examples of his unique theatrical world.

Sankar has composed music for the National Repertory production ‘Mein Istanbul Hoon’. He has been invited to conduct workshops for various schools and theatre/ dance companies, including Kuna’uka Theatre Company, Tokyo (2001), Theatre Professionals, Mumbai (2008-2012), Badungdupa Kala Kendra, Rampur, Assam (2011) and Gati Dance Forum, New Delhi (2012), Attakalari, Bangalore and NINASAM theatre Institute, Karnataka. In 2010, he was appointed as the technical director for International Theatre Festival of Kerala, organized by Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi and subsequently as the Artistic Director in 2015 and 2016. In 2011, he was invited as an artist in residence in Zurich, Switzerland by Pro Helvetia. Also in 2011 he directed a play "Seagull" written by Anton Chekhov to Ninasam Theatre Institute students. He also directed 'Neerina Niluthana' (Water Station) for 'Ninasam Maru tirugata' a theatre repertory group and the branch of Ninasam, in 2010. At present he is directing a play for Ninasam Theatre Institute students.

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