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Anupama Chandrasekhar

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Her short story Wings of Vedanthangal was the Asia winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2006. She won a Charles Wallace Trust of India (CWIT) fellowship to the Royal Court Theatre's International Playwrights Programme in 2000. She was the CWIT Writing Fellow at the University of
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Her screenplay adaptation of Free Outgoing was a finalist for the Sundance International Screenwriters’ Lab, Utah. She is the screenplay writer for a short film Kitchen Tales directed by Jane Moriarty and completed in 2020-21.
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Her other plays include Acid, originally produced by QTP, Mumbai and later by the Madras Players in 2007 (which she directed), and Closer Apart, produced by Theatre Nisha – Chennai.
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in London, opened for Christmas in December 2011. The play, directed by Rosamunde Hutt, was a tremendous box office success. A remount of the production, produced by the
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in London in 2007. It was revived at the Royal Court's main theatre in Summer 2008 and travelled to the Traverse Theatre for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival the same year.
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has been translated and staged in German and Czech languages and had its American and West Coast premieres in 2013 at Chicago's
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in its Olivier Theatre in May 2022, a work about the radicalised, devout follower of Gandhi who eventually became his killer.
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in 2015 and had its American premiere, directed by Snehal Desai and produced by Boom Arts, in Portland, Oregon in 2016.
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Chandrasekhar's plays have been staged at leading venues in India, Europe, Canada, and the US. She was the
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In June 2021, the National Theatre announced that it would stage Chandrasekher's new work
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and tackling the issue of sexual violence and patriarchy in India, opened at the
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in Toronto. The play was staged in India by Crea-Shakti and directed by
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Correspondent, Louise Jury, Chief Arts (13 April 2012).
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born and based in Chennai. She is known for her play
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Index

playwright
The Father and the Assassin
Evening Standard Theatre Awards
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
National Theatre
Indhu Rubasingham
Royal Court Theatre
Evening Standard Theatre Award
John Whiting Award
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Nightwood Theatre
Mahesh Dattani
Victory Gardens Theater
San Jose Repertory Theatre
The Snow Queen
Hans Christian Andersen
Unicorn Theatre
Trestle Theatre
Ibsen
Ghosts
Kiln Theatre
Indhu Rubasingham
2012 Delhi gang rape
The Father and the Assassin
"The 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards shortlist is here - and it's a tribute to London's incredible talent"
"Finalists announced for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize"
"National Theatre appoints Anupama Chandrasekhar as first international writer-in-residence"
"Free Outgoing"
"Fringe reviews: It's still a man's world"
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