Kumaradas TN

 

                                                                                                        Kerala born NSD alumnus Kumaradas T N has acclaimed                                  as an actor, director and designer at theatre. He has begun his theatre training from School of Drama, Thrissur, Kerala in 2005 and further he completed graduation on Theatre Technique & Design from National School of Drama in 2009. Kumaradas has since worked in various parts of India and presently heads the Design department of the Madhya Pradesh School of Drama, Bhopal.

        He has worked in folk and traditional performance art, new  media projects, video and lens based projects, lighting and design scene works, experimented with new materials. His directorial ventures started from NSD with “Trojan women” in 2009. Further he has directed and designed “Trojan women: A love story, Short stories about Uffff, Personal and Impersonal and Three Penny Opera. His recent directorial and designed project was Nagamanadala in Ireland, which performed first time by Indian immigrant community in indo-Irish History. He also has been devising his ongoing multilingual Folk-Ritualistic theatre production on Surpankha Episode, titled as “A black Talcum Powder Project” in Kerala.

 

        He has participated Prague Quadrennial 2011 (international festival of theater design and space) in Czech Republic with his own project “ Mutilation of Surpanakha”. He designed and participated GATS stage symposium and theatre institute meet at Shanghai, China in 2012. He has been designed several theatre festivals  and has designed a multimedia production “ Strange line” by Swiss art council and also designed multimedia on “Macbeth” directed by Sayed Jameel Ahamed in National school of Drama. He has also designed several theatre productions across the country: Andhayug, A mid Summer Night’s Dream, Pani, Samjhi le Ore Mana, Uttar Sita Ram Charit,Nilkhant Nirala,Virasat etc.