My Projects
Scroll down to see my most recent writing and performance work. For information about my work in dramaturgy, workshop design, or research please see ‘Other Work’.
Stage Play. 60 mins.
The world is getting hotter, cities are becoming unlivable… Something has to be done and Viren, Shree and Deepak are the ones to do it. Their ‘Cool Pod’ prototype is just the special technology needed to combat the blistering heat of our tandoori days… All they have to do is win a 2 crore jackpot on the most popular reality Tv show in the country.
Co-written with Meghana AT of tafreehwale for Asar, Fever Dreams is a satire that asks audiences to reconsider their futures in the climate crisis.
Fever Dream (On Tour 2025-26)
Stage Play. 120 mins.
‘Water blessed by the Gods… Water more valueable than gold… that’s what you have here!’
Written as part of my doctoral project, Theertham tells the story of an impoverished widow and her daughter who discover, amidst an unfolding drought, that their old well sits atop a large freshwater aquifer. The play is a study of how our extractive mindset hampers both our relationship to the natural world, and to each other.
Theertham (In Development)
Visual Art & Performance. 140 mins.
Co-created with artist Parvathi Nayar, Limits of Change is an immersive work of theatre and historical fiction that is centred on the experiences of Indian peacekeeping troops posted to the Korean DMZ near the end of the Korean War (1950-53). This perambulatory show sees audiences being guided through ‘The Story Museum’ by Curator P who unravels complex stories from the DMZ: stories of victims and aggressors, neutrality and forgiveness, and destruction and regeneration. This project was supported and produced by the Inko Centre and premiered as part of the Chennai Photo Biennale 2024-25.
Limits of Change (2025)
Stage Play. 75 mins.
In a world of extreme heat, where surface water has run dry, only a small band of humans survive. They live in the complex cave systems beneath the Scrublands, and send Runners out to hunt for food, and Diggers to tunnel for water below ground. When it looks like this last outpost of humanity won't last for long, their leader Ahi and the Digger Revathi must try to put everything right, but they have challenges to overcome, including death itself.
The Sometimes River was written for ThinkArts. You can buy a copy here.
The Sometimes River (2022)
Digital Storytelling and Visual Art . 60 mins.
Co-created with artist Parvathi Nayar, Chicken Run is a fictional photo-narrative that traces the history of the mysterious Mr H from his humble beginnings in rural Korea, through imprisonment as a North Korean prisoner of war, to life in the Demilitarized Zone under the care of the Custodian Forces of India (CFI), to setting up as a chicken farmer in Madras in the late 1950s.
This project was supported and produced by the Inko Centre and premiered as part of the Chennai Photo Biennale 2021-21. You can find an archived collection of the work here.
Chicken Run (2021-22)
Digital Play. 70 mins.
The pandemic traps three old friends Gita, Arvind, and Umar in their childhood apartment complex in Chennai. Matters take a morbid turn when Arvind’s mother suddenly dies. COVID cases are increasing, and nothing is working as it should, not even funeral grounds. Chaos ensues when Arvind decides to conduct a Brahmin funeral in their children’s playground! You can watch a trailer here.
Produced by Rage Productions, Mumbai and EnActe Arts, California, as a winner of the Enacte 2021 New Writing Festival.
