Sharanya Ramprakash is a Bengaluru based theatre maker. She places her work in the intersection between gender, tradition and language, with a focus on Kannada culture. She writes, acts, directs and collaborates with a range of forms, communities and theatre makers across local, national and international locations. Her work is research based, collaborative and exploratory. She is an INLAKS scholar and Member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, New York. She is the recipient of the Shankar Nag Theatre Award 2022. She can be found on Instagram @sharanya.ramprakash.

Shilpa Mudbi Kothakota is an artist currently living in Kalaburgi, Karnataka, India. Born and brought up in Bengaluru, India she graduated in Media Arts and production from Sydney, Australia. She has been in the field of social justice as a social activist and media consultant with NGOs working on youth, women and child rights. She taught Documentary filmmaking in Mount Carmel Collage, Bengaluru and has worked at Ranga Shankara Theatre Bengaluru as a Program Coordinator. She is the Co-founder of Urban Folk Project, a collective that looks that collating of folk knowledge systems of North Karnataka. She has been a Karnataka Janapada Academy member for the three years 2019 to 2022. She is currently on the Academic Advisory Committee of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), Bengaluru. She can be found on Instagram @shilpamudbi.

Mandeep Raikhy is a dance practitioner with a particular interest in exploring the
intersections between performance, research, pedagogy and activism. He completed a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre at Laban in 2002 and then toured with Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, London between 2005 – 2009. Mandeep has created several dance works, notably Inhabited Geometry (2010), a male ant has straight antennae (2013), Queen-size (2016), Anatomy of Belief (2019), Hallucinations of an Artifact (2023).
These works have travelled across the country and internationally. Mandeep has also worked to develop a supportive environment for contemporary dance in India through several initiatives since 2008 such as the Gati Dance Forum, Khuli Khirkee and the M.A. Performance Practice (Dance) at Ambedkar University, Delhi. He can be found on Instagram @mandeepraikhy.

Diya Naidu is an independent artist based in Bangalore and Mumbai, India. A versatile choreographer, dancer, performer, facilitator, and arts organizer, she founded Citizens of Stage Co Lab, a collective dedicated to sustainability in dance through community engagement. Diya’s work spans multiple artistic forms, with recent performances including Ceremony of Longing in India and at Kampnagel, Hamburg. She recently developed a piece with Swiss choreographer Jozsef Trefeli, exploring how different cultures approach the aging body, that premiered in Bengaluru, November 2024. Diya has curated dance for Shoonya Centre for Art and Somatic Practices and performed
internationally with companies like Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts. Her work has been showcased globally in festivals such as The Park Festival, Korzo Theatre Festival, and the Hindu Theatre Festival. A recipient of numerous grants, including the Pro Helvetia Co-creation grant, she is a mentor and movement director for various theatre projects. She can be found on Instagram @diyanise.

Anamika Haksar is a renowned theatre director, trained under the legendary Badal Sircar and at India’s National School of Drama under Shri B.V. Karanth from 1979 to 1982. She is the only Indian to have trained at GITIS, the prestigious State Institute of Theatrical Arts in Moscow, where she received the Lenin’s Diploma of Excellence in Direction (1982–1988). In the 1990s, she designed the syllabus for the production process module at the National School of Drama, shaping the pedagogical foundation for generations of theatre-makers. Many of India’s most prominent theatre directors, as well as actors in contemporary theatre, cinema, and television, have been trained by her. Haksar is credited with pioneering a new visual and metaphorical language in Indian theatre—one that reimagines realism and introduces a poetic contemporary lens to performance. With over 25 productions to her name, she has also served on the Academic Council of the National School of Drama during Dr. Anuradha Kapur’s tenure as Director. She remains the only Indian to have formally studied Stanislavski’s method in the Soviet Union. Her most recent work marks her debut as a film director: Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon (translated from Hindi as Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebis), which premiered in 2018. The film is a poignant, dreamlike exploration of Old Delhi—mapping its lives, memories, and aspirations with striking visual, sonic and narrative innovation. You can find her on Instagram @anamika_haksar.

Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon:
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