education

Master's in Authorial Acting and Pedagogy

from The Academy of Performing Arts (Prague) (2021)

Course based on the intersection of performance, direction, writing, & pedagogy.

Bachelor's in Sociology-Anthropology

St Xavier's College (Autonomous), Mumbai (2016)

workshops

Would I Lie to You? - 6 week workshop on digital documentary theatre led by Anuja Ghosalkar and Kai Tuchmann (2022)
InFocus - Lighting for theatre workshop led by TechQuartet and Studio Safdar (2021)
Milon Mela - Grotowski's method meeting with Indian classical forms at a 4 week residency; led by Abani Biswas (2018)
Intermediate Acting - one month; led by Mahesh Dattani (2012)

directing

Max, Min and Meowzaki (dir. Padmakumar N.): upcoming film, feature cast | 2023
Good Bad Girl (dir. Abhishek Sengupta): webseries on Sony LIV, ensemble cast | 2022
xQ Video Lab: host for educational videos | 2022
Swipe Ride (dir. Debbie Rao): ad for Tinder | 2021
IPL 'India Ki Vibe Alag Hai' (Supari Studios): ensemble cast | 2021
Thinkistan (dir. Padmakumar N.): ‘Natasha’. Season 1 of webseries, on MXPlayer | 2019
What If? (dir. Ananya Samanta): short film commissioned by Prague Film School | 2019
Vitamin Stree: 'Birth Control and Chill' (Supari Studios) video on contraception | 2017
LaughGuru: Voice-over for e-learning product | 2014-16
Iesha: Host of 6 educational videos on reproductive health for pre-teens | 2015

as Production Manager/Executive Producer

Festival Manager (2016)

Manager of Thespo 18, a year-round youth theatre movement in India

as Production Assistant

A Peek into the Rehearsal Process (2023) for Drama School Mumbai's Blog
Rest is for (the) Show (2023) for Theatre Ink, Aadyam
Interview with Sandbox Collective (2022) for Drama School Mumbai's blog
How To Navigate The Missing Arts Infrastructure (2022) a series for Gitanjali Creative magazine
Pigeons on the AC (2021): creative writing for the Flora Fiction
Artists Working the Network (2021): a series for Gitanjali Creative magazine
Theatre of the Pandemic (2021): a series for Gitanjali Creative magazine
That’s What I Learnt (2020-21): a series on Aadyam's Theatre Ink blog
Press releases and Playbills for Aadyam (2018): for Hello Farmaaish and Jab Khuli Kitaab
A Practioner of Finger-Tip Feminism Activism Responds To Nivedita Menon (2018): published on Feminism in India
How to Plan a Solo Trip (2018): published in Go-Getter, the in-flight magazine of Go Air.

production

Name of Play (Director) Venue | Year

Pink is the New Black (Danesh A.R. Khambata) NCPA, St Andrew's Auditorium | 2022 - present
The Taming of the Shrew (Deshik Vansadia) Drama School Mumbai, Prithvi Theatre | 2018
Wolf (Trishla Patel) Pune | 2018,2022-present
The Exchange Student (Trishla Patel) Prithvi Theatre, NCPA | 2017 - present
Art (Meghana AT) Godrej Theatre, NCPA | 2016
Free Outgoing (Mahesh Dattani) Playpen Terrace | 2014
Wisdom (Jeff Goldberg) St Andrew’s Auditorium | 2013

teaching

Performance (Director) Venue | Year

K (Punarvasu) Le Chakallas | 2022
Thespo 23 First Call (Meghana AT) Online | 2021
Unshared Childhoods (Tanvi Shah) Harkat Studios/Online, Method Art, Theatre at Home | 2021-present
30 Dní / 30 Days (Tinka Avramova) Prague | 2020-21
Hayavadana (Lyra Dutt) Veda Factory | 2019
Drift (David Somlo, HU), Tangled (Ant Nevin, AU), Trophy (Sarah Conn,CA) Prague Quadrennial | 2019
Thespo 19 First Call (Vahi G.) Prithvi Theatre | 2018
MPower (Faezeh Jalali) BITS Pilani, Goa | 2018
Mystic Memoirs (Divya Rajan) NGMA, KGAF | 2018
This World That Crosses Us (Renato Rocha) Prithvi House | 2017
Thespo 18 First Call (Akshay Anand Kohli) Prithvi Theatre | 2017
The Race Course (Anil C.) KGAF | 2016
Does God Not Catch A Cold? (Prthvir S.) KGAF | 2015
By Your Side (Pramod Pathak) school audiences | 2012

Plan B/C/D/E | Mumbai, Delhi, Prague, Bangalore, online | 2019-present | winner of outstanding new writing, outstanding director, outstanding actor (female), outstanding production at Thespo 23
The Art of Crying | (upcoming)
Meghana vs the Universe | Prague | 2019-2020

writing

Faculty at The Drama School Mumbai in-city programme and hybrid course (2023-present)
Drama Facilitator at Akshara High School (Oct-Dec 2022)
Guest lecturer for Honours students at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, St Xavier's College, Mumbai (2022)
Drama Facilitator at Bombay Scottish School (Mahim) - training students for their dramatics competition (2022)
Faculty at Buniyaad NGO - teaching English, Communication and Expression (2021)
Pinnacle Rise! - corporate workshop facilitator, 2021
Programme Co-ordinator at Akshara Foundation for Arts and Learning, for 'Arts for All – At the Theatre (2017-2018)
Co-conductor of theatre workshops under Khula Aasmaan NGO, at Thane Women’s Prison (March-May 2017).
Workshop conductor, Akshara Centre: public speaking workshop for college girls (April-May 2015)

Play by My Rules - reflections on the relationship between audience and performer in Plan B/C/D/E (2021, Master's thesis)
Sukoon – Drama and Discovery in an Indian Prison (2018, published in Teaching Artists’ Journal, Routledge)
My House, My Rules (2017, seminar paper at the department for Public Policy St Xavier's College)

The following papers were written during my Bachelor's studies at St Xavier's College, Mumbai.

The Dramaturgy of the Lavani Spectator (2016, Sociology of Gender dissertation)
Sex and the State: India’s reproductive health policy (2016, Applied Anthropology dissertation)
Spreading Democracy: the role of the United Nations (2015)
Harry Potter and Ideological State Apparatus (2014)

Hello Farmaaish Playbill (2018): Aadyam production
Thespo Ink editor(2016-17): hosted on issuu.com
Thespo 18 Magazine Editor (2016): festival magazine
Eidos (2015-16): research journal of the Sociology-Anthropology department at St Xavier’s College

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