Sanjay Kumar

Pandies Theatre Group
New Delhi, India

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Website: pandiestheatre.blogspot.com

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Sanjay is a practitioner of activist theatre. As the founding President of Pandies’ theatre and the director/chief facilitator of its productions and workshops from 1993 onwards, he has been creating performances with and for the marginalized in India for over 20 years. He has directed over 40 plays for the proscenium, many kinds of activist plays in communities over the country and worked in close conjunction with many groups and communities enabling the young of these to create their own problems around their own problems and visions. He is a resident of the Rockefeller Bellagio Residency (Italy, 2010) for work on platform children, a participant of the US government’s prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program (Social Change through Arts, 2011) and alumni of the International Class for Social Therapy, East Side Institute for Long and Short Term Psychotherapy (New York, 2012). He is an Associate professor at the Hansraj College, University of Delhi. His doctoral thesis (JNU, 2014) is a PaR on applied activist theatre. He has published and presented in national and international journals and conferences and conducted workshops on theatre with the marginalized/ theatre as therapy all over the world. Performing, Teaching and Writing Theatre: Exploring Play was published December 1, 2022.