Aneesha Srinivasan

Aneesha Srinivasan is a director, writer & academic from India. She has an MFA in Writing for Stage & Broadcast Media from the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama (RCSSD) (2018) & an MA in English Literature from Newcastle University (2015). She has directed well-reviewed & award-winning shows that speak strongly to identity: Grindr Survivr: The Play (Bunker Theatre, 2020), Before I Was A Bear (Bunker Theatre, 2019) & The Palestinian in the Basement is on Fire (Southwark Playhouse, 2018). She teaches at the Identity School of Acting & directed the professional showcase on the theme of Identity in Isolation in 2020. In 2021, she will be Outreach Coordinator for the London Indian Film Festival.

She is also the co-artistic director of Global Origins, a network and platform for international, multicultural, and diasporic artists that she runs with Emma Jude Harris. Global Origins teaches on decolonising the canon and disrupting British hegemony in theatre at drama schools and venues including RCSSD, Mountview, Guildhall Change-Makers, and the Young Vic. Their two-day multidisciplinary festival ARE WE THERE YET of international work took place at the Bussey Building in October 2019. Global Origin’s discussion group for international plays, REROUTED, is also delivered in partnership with the Gate Theatre and will be announced shortly.