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Rupesh Tillu

Visiting Faculty

Rupesh Tillu is an actor, director and independent filmmaker, born in Mumbai India. He holds MFA in Physical Comedy from The National School of Dramatic Arts, Sweden. He has received several international theatre awards such as Outstanding Artist/Act – Stockholm Fringe Festival 2012, A Special Jury Award – Best of Prague Fringe Festival 2013 and many more. He played the title role of Boicheck in a feature film directed by national award winner Santosh Sivan. The film is a Hindi adaptation of Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck. He played the character of ‘Yorick’ in a Hollywood production ‘Ophelia’, directed by Claire McCarthy, where he got an opportunity to do scenes with Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. He has also played the character of Ajay in the national and international award- winning feature film Ship of Theseus. His new work Har Och Nu is commissioned by Tyst Teater/Riksteatern (Swedish National Theatre), which premiered in March 2017 in Sweden, followed by a national tour.

He has worked with several theatre companies such as Avikal Theatre Company (India), Urban Theatre Company (Sweden), Teater Slava (Sweden), Bananteatern (Sweden). He has done expeditions with Clowns without Borders to Moldova, Palestine, Israel, India, Jordan, Nepal, Bhutan and Egypt. He is a part of Drömställe – A clown trio, which toured nationally in all renowned theatres of Sweden in 2013, and since then the play has been touring in Europe’s prestigious theatre festivals. His vocational training includes one-year Physical Theatre at Fhsk Vårdinge By. Professional Clown training with Clowns without Borders Sweden. He has also worked for UNESCO Centre for Peace, Frederick M.D, USA. His debut documentary feature film ‘The Living Gods’ is co-produced by the Swedish National Television which premiered on SVT- Kspecial in the autumn 2017. He is the founder and artistic director of Theatreact.

Ashok Kumar

Visiting Faculty

Ashok Kumar studied Acting at the National School of Drama, Delhi. Founder of Actoghraphers, theatre organization active in India, he has been involved in the productions of plays and conducting workshops from 2014 till 2020. He conducted numerous Performance Oriented Workshops and also wrote the play Mirage. He has been the associate director for plays such as King Lear and Romeo and Juliet in the National School of Drama, while he also taught Physical Theatre. He also acted in Bose: Dead or Alive, a web series on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. He has done extensive research on different acting styles and schools of thought during and after graduating from the National School of Drama. Ashok has also taught and practiced ‘Konstantin Stanislavski’, ‘Stella Adler’, ‘Lee Strasberg’ techniques of acting. His international collaborations include, co-directing the play Tum Kaun at the NAPA International Theater festival, participated and performed in the Asian Theatre Festival conducted in Beijing, China in 2012, and performed as an actor and Assistant Director of the play Raddi Bazaar at the NAPA International Theater festival conducted in Karachi, Pakistan.

Aru Verma

Visiting Faculty

Aru Verma is a trained professional actor with acting experience of over 15 years, he started his life in theatre and has been working in the Indian Television and Film Industry from the last 10 years.

He is an alumnus of Whistling Woods International and graduated top of his class in 2010, trained under veteran Indian actors like Naseeruddin Shah, Benjamin Gilani and Kenneth Desai. He has an Acting Diploma – 2 years Understudy to Rob Reece (member of Actors Studio, LA for 3 years Understudy to Shernaz Pater (veteran Indian Actor) for 1 year Understudy to Salim Arif (veteran Indian Director and Production Designer) for 1 year. He has trained for 3 years in professional theatre under Arvind Gaur (prominent Indian Theatre director and Social Activist) in the theatre society known as Asmita Theatre Group.

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Dipika Pandey

Visiting Faculty

Dipika Pandey is a trained Kalaripayattu martial artist, actor and Salsa dancer. She has been performing, training, and teaching for many years now. Her mentors in physical and psychophysical theatre have been Abani Biswas (founder and director of Theatre house, Shantiniketan) and John Britton (director of Duende school of arts), to name a few. As an artist, she aims to incorporate the understanding and awareness of the performer’s body into storytelling. She has directed a few movements based plays as well. Her last project as a Kalaripayattu and movement artist was a collaborative production of the US consulate and University of Florida.