“Saudamini works as a writer-director and performer in the arts, and as co-founder of the Meat Puppet Company. She also conducts theatre-based workshops with children and adults and writes reviews of theatre as a member of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC). Her work tends to be about isolated subjects dealing with bizarre predicaments – always inspired by life as we know it. She is currently working on a series of performances based on workplace experiences.”
Indian Ensemble, the erstwhile theatre company, had been a formidable name in the avenue of Indian theater for quite a few years. It was certainly exciting to be invited to become part of their Writer’s Lab, and later as part of the company, Chanakya Vyas led the writer’s lab and, under his guidance, I experienced some wonderful writing exercises and philosophies that are with me to this day. It is not for nothing that he is a regular fixture in The Drama School Mumbai faculty team.
Indulging in such a structured, disciplined, and hands on lab process of creation has a lot to do with why Seb Ke Beej has become my favorite and most personal writing achievement so far.
A session in progress, held at a well-wisher’s farm-stay just outside Bengaluru. 2020.