ICS Theatre Directors
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Dr. faRLEY richmond
Dr. Farley Richmond is Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia, Athens. Over the years Dr. Richmond has directed numerous plays, both Indian and western. His ICS Theatre productions include Moliere’s Tartuffe and It’s About Time. For Epic Actors he directed Girish Karnad's Hayavadana at Crossroads Theatre, Tagore's Sacrifice (Bisarjan) in Kolkata and also performed in Shantinekatan, in New Delhi, and at NJPAC, and the classical Sanskrit play The Little Clay Cart by King Sudraka also performed at NJPAC. Dr. Richmond has also directed plays and musicals like Romeo and Juliet, The Fantasticks, Our Town, and Noises Off. All of the works garnered positive critical response. Dr. Richmond has had a long relationship with India. He has traveled to many parts of India on numerous occasions including leading faculty and student trips to study Indian art, theatre and music. He continues to do research on Kutiyattam, the Sanskrit theatre of Kerala perhaps one of the oldest genre of theatre that has survived from ancient India (see kutiyattam.wikispaces.com).

mAHESH daTTANI
Mr. Mahesh Dattani is a renowned playwright, stage director, screenwriter and filmmaker. His works include Final Solutions, Tara, A Collected Works, BriefCandle and Other Plays and most recently Me and My Plays published by Penguin. In 1998, Mahesh Dattani won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for his book Final Solutions and Other Plays, the highest award for literary work in India. Mahesh is the first playwright, writing in English, to receive this award. Today his plays are produced in all the major cities of India. His works have been produced in cities outside India as well including London, Leicester, New York, Washington DC, Sydney, Colombo, Toronto and Dubai.
Most notably, his play, Dance Like a Man, has completed 600 performances and continues to tour to date. He has written and directed, Mango Soufflé, a film that was adjudged best motion picture at the Barcelona Film Festival in 2003. His film Morning Raga (for which he was writer and director) had its international premiere at the Cairo Film Festival where he won the award for best artistic contribution. Most recently, he has directed his play, 30 Days in September, for Zee Theatre Productions.
That Mr. Dattani is a writer and director par excellence is no news, but for ICS Theatre he is family! He is a mentor and a guide. He has worked tirelessly with our group and helped us dream bigger and scale higher with every production.

nIKHAAR KISHNANI
Nikhaar Kishnani is a New York based actress. Regional Theatre: A Doll’s House, Part 2 at Actors Theatre of Louisville Off-Off Broadway: World Premiere of Veil’d at Astoria Performing Arts Center. Film: Sama, Him&Her&Him. Television: Brown Nation, Code Switched, Geeta’s Guide To Moving On, Nepotism. DePaul University and Rutgers University credits: Twelfth Night, The Women Eat Chocolate, Prospero’s Storm, The Children’s Hour and The Qualms; The Rimers of Eldritch. Additional Credits: She is a recipient of the iO Chicago Diversity Scholarship and Upright Citizens Brigade Diversity Scholarship. Nikhaar teaches improvisation, voice, and acting workshops, and is one of the voices for L’Oréal cosmetics.
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For ICS Theatre, Nikhaar has been a judge for the Emerging Artists' Program as well as has directed the 2019 Staged Play Reading of the winning script ' A Picture is worth a thousand words'

BARKHA KISHNANI