South Asian

Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar

Representative Plays:

Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe! (Silence! The Court is in Session!) (1967)

Bio:

Vijay Tendulkar (7 January 1928 – 19 May 2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi. He is best known for his plays, Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe (1967), Ghāshirām Kotwāl (1972), and Sakhārām Binder (1972).Many of Tendulkar’s plays derived inspiration from real-life incidents or social upheavals, which provides clear light on harsh...

Sagar Deshmukh

Representative Plays:

Leftovers (Shillak) (2017)

Bio:

A lawyer by education, Sagar took his first theatre lessons in Progressive Dramatic Association, Pune in 1999. Acting is his main strength while he has also been writing and directing intermittently. Sagar is also a founding member of Aasakta Kalamanch, Pune- a prominent Marathi theatre organization. Sagar has been on stage as an actor with more than 25 plays and his notable works include Marathi plays like Matra Ratra, Tichee 17 Prakarne, Uney Purey Shahar Ek, F-1/105 and the latest Mein Huun...

Rajiv Joseph

Representative Plays:

Describe the Night (2017)
Guards at the Taj (2015)
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (2010)

Bio:

Rajiv Joseph’s play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama and also awarded a grant for Outstanding New American Play by the National Endowment for the Arts. His play Guards at the Taj was a 2016 Obie Winner for Best New American Play and 2016 Lucille Lortel Winner for Best Play...

Purva Naresh

Representative Plays:

Ok Tata Bye Bye (2012)

Bio:

Born on 20 June 1974 in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, Shrimati Purva Naresh hails from a culturally rich background and learnt singing from her mother Shrimati Vijaya Naresh and music and creative writing from her father, the eminent Hindi poet Shri Naresh Saxena. She has a BA (Hons) in Economics from Delhi University and a Masters in Pakhavaj from Khairagarh University. She went on to do a Postgraduate Diploma in film production at FTII Pune. Since then she has been writing, directing,...

Mohan Rakesh

Representative Plays:

Halfway House (Adhe Adhure) (1969)

Bio:

Mohan Rakesh (1925-1972) was a modernist innovator in Hindi who deeply influenced India's multilingual literary culture after Independence. His full-length plays-Ashadh ka ek din (1958), Lahron ke rajhans (1963) and Adhe adhure (1969)-became seminal works of urban drama and theatre, while his fiction sustained the 'new story' and 'new novel' movements nationally. Consolidated by four decades of posthumous publication, his prolific output as theatre theorist, literary and...