The Core Team

Amba-Suhasini K Jhala
Amba is a performer, director and teaching artist. Amba is the course leader for the post graduate diploma in acting at the Drama school, Mumbai. She is also a founding member of The Guild of the Goat theatre company. Amba’s interest lies in work that challenges and investigates our times: Who are we? What is our place in the world? And what are the stories that we do not hear? We won’t change what we don’t understand, and we can’t understand what we don’t see.
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Anirudh ‘Rudy’ Nair
Rudy is a performer, director, and teacher. Having completed his MA in Theatre Practice at the University of Exeter, he has been working professionally in the performing arts for over 15 years collaborating with practitioners across India and overseas. In the last few years, Rudy’s work focused on reimagining the contemporary urban theatre landscape in terms of the people it includes and the stories it tells. He is a co-founder of Guild of the Goat alongside Amba, and is a regular visiting faculty member at the Drama School Mumbai.
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Sanyukta Saha
Sanyukta is an applied theatre practitioner and the Managing Director of Aagaaz Theatre Trust, a community arts centre and theatre repertory based out of Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti. With over 15 years working at the intersection between theatre and development, Sanyukta has worked directly with marginalised communities to create contextualised initiatives that explore the potential of arts and performance for social justice.
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Shambhavi Singh
Shambhavi is an arts manager, professional coach, and brand strategy consultant with over 20 years of experience in project and team management across creative industries. She is also the founder of the Delhi-based arts nonprofit Oddbird Theatre and Foundation, which supports meaningful creative exchange by hosting performances and bringing together diverse artists and audiences.
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Kiana Manian
Kiana is a writer and arts manager with experience in theatre and education. She co-founded the multidisciplinary collaborative arts collective Dinner At Midnu’s and has worked with organisations in Delhi such as WIP Labs, Oddbird Theatre Foundation, and Aagaaz Theatre Trust.

Sukriti
Sukriti is an academic, theatre-maker, arts educator and performance studies scholar from Ambedkar University, Delhi. She has trained across theatre styles in the Shri Ram Centre of Performing Arts, Delhi, the National School of Drama and Kaivalya Plays Delhi, and has worked extensively with theatre groups in Delhi both on and off stage. Her own work is heavily rooted in her research interests, focusing on performance as it connects with theories of identity, intersectionality, and gender and sexuality.
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