Abhishek Majumdar

 

Abhishek Majumdar is a playwright, scenographer, essayist, and director. He is the artistic director of Nalanda Arts Studio, a Bangalore-based theatre company that focuses on making new work in multiple Indian languages and is invested in collaborations with other Asian and African artists. He is also the creative producer at New Voices Arts Project and Visiting Associate Professor at New York University in Abu Dhabi.

His work has been performed in festivals and theatre around the world and translated into several languages worldwide. He is the recipient of the International Theatre Artist Award 2021 by Playwrights Realm New York and the Segal Center Award for Civic Engagement in the Arts 2021. His book, Theatre across borders, which is part of Bloomsbury's TheaterMakers series, is about to be published in 2022. His first film, Water Station, an adaptation of the eponymous play by Ota Shogo, is to be released in 2022 by the New York University Abu Dhabi Arts Center, and was created as part of the New York University Abu Dhabi Theatre Program. He is currently creating new work for Royal Court Theatre London, PlayCo New York, Bloomsbury International, Tibet Theatre, and Nalanda Arts Studio to name a few places.