Acclaimed playwright Abhishek Majumdar, on Pause with Nandini

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Kashmiris, Tibetans, islanders, ancient feuds between Hindus and Buddhists, and the politics of war. Abhishek Majumdar in his new book, Abhishek Majumdar, Collected Plays,  goes into spaces that are often unvisited, and within those spaces, he arrives with and offers more questions than easy answers.  

With acute humanity, and unmitigated curiosity,  Abhishek explores themes both diverse and interconnected;  the environment, violence and non violence, the passage of time, morality and oppression, the individual and the collective.  
He is a playwright, essayist, scenographer, and director who works in India and internationally. His work has been produced and commissioned in leading theaters of the world including Royal Court Theatre London, Prithvi Theatre Mumbai, Ranga Shankara Bangalore, Deutsch Shauspielhaus Hamburg, Ruhrfest Recklinghausen, Théâtre du Soleil Paris, National Theatre London, San Francisco Opera, PEN World Voices, Internacionale Dramaturgie Festival Buenos Aires, San Francisco Opera, and PlayCo New York amongst others.

He is a recipient of multiple awards including the META Award for Best Play and Best Script,  International Theatremakers Award New York,  The Shankar Nag Rangakarmi Award Bangalore, the Toto Funds the Arts Award, Segal Center Award for Civic Engagement in the Arts,  B.V.Karanth Fellowship of Ninasam, Best Director in London Movie Awards, Best Director 8 and Half Film Festival (Rome) Awards, Best Scenographer Sofia International Film Festival amongst others. He works in Theater, Film, and Opera in different languages and cultures. 

His book of essays, Theater Across Borders was published by Bloomsbury International as part of the Theatermakers series and he has been published, performed, and translated in Hindi, English, French, German, Czech, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, Kashmiri, and Spanish. 

He is the Artistic Director of Nalanda Arts Studio Bangalore and creative producer at New Voices Arts Project based in Bangalore. His plays are published by Bloomsbury International.

Apart from theater, he has published in the areas of mathematics, environmental economics, and chemistry. 

Currently he is directing an Ambedkarite Opera with Yalgaar Sanskrutik Manch Mumbai and Nalanda Arts Studio Bangalore,  co-commissioned by NYUAD arts center. He is also directing  Solo Vazio, a physical theater piece with Julieta Dobbin in Brazil. He is writing a new play for on the trade of war debris , for the Collaborative, Dublin, Working on a new novel " Radiodurans" and working on the next part of the Tibet Trilogy for Tibet Theatre , Dharmashala and Germany. 

Abhishek Majumdar Collected Plays is available here: 

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/abhishek-majumdar-collected-plays-9781350423688/

Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Majumdar-Collected-Plays/dp/178682258X

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