YUVAA THEATRE

Founder & Creative Director: Dr. Ankur Sharma

ABOUT DR. ANKUR SHARMA

Ankur Sharma: Phd. in English (Comparative Drama)

Special Research Fellow at Yale School of Drama, Yale University, USA (2014 -2015)

Acting Shakespeare student at Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, RADA, London (2016)

Participated in a workshop on Performance Energy at Adishakti Theatre Lab, Chennai (2016)

Founded YUVAA as a Not for Profit Organisation to promote theatre among Young Students in particular and the Residents of the region in general.

Experience: Creative Direction, Social Awareness work and Philanthropic Work with YUVAA - 10 years

Plays Directed: 1 in USA, 25 for YUVAA

Plays Acted in: 2 in USA, 1 in London and 14 for YUVAA

Experience as a Drama Teacher and Actor Trainer: 15 years

Vision: Theatre is necessary for the society. The more we incorporate theatre into our system of education for the young minds the more humane, understanding, sensitive and sensible our future citizens will be, the more developed our society will be. We must build more theatre houses and art centres in our cities.

Memorable Clicks

Ankur with Great Actor Seema Biswas

Ankur With Great Theatre and Film Directors Neelam Mansingh and Deepa Mehta

Ankur at 18th Bharat Rang Mahautsav 2016

Team YUVAA with Deputy Commisioner & His Team

Ankur with actors and artists from NSD and PU, Department of Indian Theatre

Ankur at NIT, Jalandhar during his Guest Lecture

MY SKILLS

Direction60%

Acting65%

Production80%

Training80%

Photography55%

Script Writing68%

Art Direction77%

"Think you only Kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you'll know what power is."

Jennifer Donnelly

Founder & Creative Director: Ankur Sharma

Ankur Sharma is a passionate theatre maker, actor and acting teacher. He was a Special Research Fellow at the world famous Yale School of Drama in the USA where he studied theatre direction under distinguished theatre makers and teachers like Elizabeth Diamond and David Chambers. He also learnt acting in the acting classes of Ron Van Lieu, Peter Francis James (Shakespeare Acting) and Walton Wilson. At Yale, Ankur also learnt the nuances of stage design in the Master Classes of Ming Cho Lee. He adapted, translated and staged a play, Muzeum, at the Yale Cabaret Theatre in Yale School of Drama and performed a major role in Ryan Campbell's play The Zero Scenario directed by Sarah Holdren.

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