Shubhra Nayar
DESIGN IS THE BLOSSOMING CORE
Education
MA in Theatre Design, 2010-11, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Post-Graduate Diploma in Theatre Design, 2008-9, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Graduate Diploma in Textile Design(2002-2007), National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India
Performance Design experience
Costume Design, 'Keep Calm and #Tag', directed by Rituparna Bhattacharya and Shabari Rao for Theatre Professionals, Mumbai and the Goethe Institute, Mumbai.
Touring 2015
Set Design, ‘The Shawl’, directed by Nakul Bhalla for Sparkplug Theatre Co.
Jagriti Theatre, Bangalore 2013
Script, Design, Puppet construction, Direction : ‘Aduni and the Watertutu’, a production of puppetry
Produced by the Tirasila Theatre Practice in collaboration with Rishi Valley School, KFI, India 2013
Workshop Design and Execution - Enlarging the Moment: Unfolding Life through Puppetry
A two-week workshop with puppet making, puppeteering and set construction through a performance,
with the students of Class 11 at Rishi Valley School, KFI, India 2013
Costume Design, ‘The Plague’, directed by Vivek Narayan for Theatre Counteract
Alliance Francais de Bangalore, 2012
Set Design, ‘Chapter 2’ directed by Anna Thomas for Jugaad Arts
Rangashankara & Alliance Francais, Bangalore 2012 ; Jagriti Theatre Bangalore 2013
Set Design, ‘The Invisible River’ , directed by Vivek Madan for the Artists’ Repertory Theatre
Jagriti Theatre, Whitefield, Bangalore 2012
Set Design, ‘Death & the Maiden’ , directed by Ashish Sen for the Artists’ Repertory Theatre
Jagriti Theatre, Whitefield, Bangalore 2012
Set Design, ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ , directed by Arundhati Raja
for the Artists’ Repertory Theatre, Jagriti Theatre, Whitefield
& the Hindu Metroplus Theatre Festival, Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Bangalore 2012
Set Design and Documentation for Workshop Support Team, Scenofest, Prague Quadrennial, Czech Republic 2011
Design assistant to Jean Chan (Linbury Awardee 2009) for ‘The Garbage King’
Unicorn Theatre, London 2010
Set & Costume Design, ‘Romanza’, choreographed by Roy-Campbell Moore
Summerdance: National Dance Company Wales 2010
Set & Costume Design, ‘Of Birds and Monsters’, choreographed by Viivi Keskinen
Alternative Routes: Diversions Dance Company, Wales 2009
Design assistant to Simon Banham for Philip Glass’ ‘In the Penal Colony’, with Music Theatre Wales; directed by Michael McCarthy; premiered at the Royal Opera House, London, September 2010
Project Assistant, Design, Puppet construction and Puppeteering - ‘Death and the Nightingale’
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, directed by Emma Williams, music by Lucy Rivers
Dyffryn Gardens, Vale of Glamorgan 2010
Costume assistant, ‘The Speculator’ at the Caird Studio,
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, designed by Kathryn Brett, directed by George Perrin 2009
Research Assistant, Puppetry - ‘Legend of the Golden Swans’,
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, directed by Adele Thomas, music by Lucy Rivers
St Fagans, Wales 2009
Set and Costume design, conceptual opera, Bartok’s 'Bluebeard’s Castle', Wales Millenium Centre 2009
Set and Costume design, conceptual, Beckett’s 'Waiting for Godot', Chapter Studio, Cardiff 2008
Set and Costume design, sound and lighting assistant, 'Merlin the Wizard' with Rotary International 2005
Costume Designer and co-director, 'Shakuntala', Khel, Theatre at the National Institute of Design, India 2005
Set assistant, 'Final Solutions' at the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts (Ahmedabad, India), Khel,
Theatre at the National Institute of Design, India 2004
Set and costume designer, assistant director, Jean Annuile’s 'Joan of Arc', Rishi Valley School, India 2001
Ongoing Work
The Sprite of the Salt Deep, touring production in progress, The Tirasila Theatre Practice, 2014-15
Performance Design for work in progress by Vivek Narayan for Theatre Counteract, Bangalore 2014-15
Executive Commitee member,
Madhavan Nayar Foundation, Kochi, India
Co-founder, The Shola Trust, Nilgiris, India
Founder, The Tirasila Theatre Practice, India
CWIT Awardee 2013
Documentation & Print
2013 - Photography and Design for the Language of Design, World Stage Design 2013, Cardiff UK
As CWIT (Charles Warlace India Trust) Awardee 2013
2009-2010 Research, photography and documentation of puppetry production Death and the Nightingale 2010,
(Portfolio of Professional Development | Shubhra Nayar | 2010)
2006-2007 Designing and Teaching, Research and Documentation : The Chettinad Sari, Tamil Nadu, India
(Project in Collaboration with the M.Rm.Rm.Cultural Foundation, Chennai)
2005 Documentation, Tolpava Koothu, leather shadow puppetry, Kerala, India
2004 Shoe Making - the Paabu shoe, Ladakh Himalayas, India
2010 - present
2010 - present