Meghana AT

producer, author, pedagogue

Meghana AT is a theatre artist/theatre addict, who has been working in the Mumbai theatre circuit since 2012. In this time, she's worked as an actor, writer, director, production manager, trainer, producer - with more to come.

She has worked with a number of theatre makers, including: Mahesh Dattani, Rehaan Engineer, Faezeh Jalali, Trishla Patel, Quasar Thakore-Padamsee, among many others. She completed her Master's in Authorial Acting and Pedagogy from The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 2021.

Her notable work on screen includes Kiska Hoga Thinkistan, Swipe Ride, Good Bad Girl, and Max, Min and Meowzaki.

As the co-founder of tafreehwale she hopes to build a safe space to create and support innovative and original theatre.

Mallika Shah

producer, author, pedagogue

Mallika is an actor, director, and writer based out of Mumbai. She believes theatre to be a versatile, adventurous, and holistic vehicle of thought through which to discover worlds in detail. Her interests lie in the mundane, in rebellion, pop and youth culture, love, and just about everything else.

In her eight years of study and work in the theatre and out, she has trained at the Drama School Mumbai, worked in communications at Antarang Foundation, a youth employability organisation, and has explored different facets of theatre-making with

Bhasha Centre, KathaSiyah, Patchworks Ensemble,

and Stone Paper Stories. She has acted in Shoojit Sircar’s Sardar Udham and Prime Video’s Made in Heaven.

She wrote and directed her first play,

I Killed my Mother / It Wasn’t my Fault, a coming-of-age story

that explores the frivolity of urban girlhood.