Nayantara Nayar
Chennai
Nayantara is a playwright, researcher, and storyteller from Chennai, India. Her research interests include urban spaces, memory, and ecological crises. Her body of work includes, ‘The Lottery’ (short-listed Hindu Play Writing Award 2018); ‘The Body’ (Rage Theatre and Enacte Theatre, California for the New Writing Festival, 2021); 'Chicken Run' (Chennai Photo Biennale 2021-22); ‘The Sometimes River’ (Parag, 2023); and ‘Curfew’ (Writing without Borders, Rage Theatre and Lyric Theatre Belfast, 2022-23). She is currently a CHASE funded PhD researcher at University of East Anglia where she studies water crisis, and the potential of theatre practices to foster different water-related imaginaries.