Mukul Ahmed: The Artistic director of Mukul and Ghetto Tigers.
In 2007 Mukul Ahmed completed the prestigious Birkbeck MFA Theatre Directing programme. He has since gone onto direct a series of classics, new writing and play readings locally and internationally. Mukul Ahmed has participated in the Step Change programme successfully and Staff Directed at the National Theatre, England.
Major plays – Faust, Devdas, To Father A Nation and Three Girls from Shakespeare by Farrukh Dhondy; LONDONEE by Gurpreet Bhatti; night, Mother by Marsha Norman; Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Rape of Lucrece and Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare; Sonata by Mahesh Elkuncwar , Silent Sisters – Brothers Unhinged and Bodies by Raminder Kaur Kahlon, Prints of Denmark by Nick Bain (Short listed for the Amnesty Award), Commencing by Jane Shepard, Oscar and the lady in Pink by Eric – Emmanuel Schmitt; Stray Birds and Gauhar Jaan by Tarun Jasani. Participated at the Theatre Olympics 2018, India with Romeo and Juliet. Most recently did a global tour of Olga’s Room by Dea Loher. His most recent play is ‘Exodus’
Mukul teaches acting at the LAMDA and is a visiting faculty for Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Website: https://www.mukulandghettotigers.com
Rolf Killius : Oral historian/film producer/ethnomusicologist
Rolf Killius is a consultant (museums, exhibitions, and media), oral historian, exhibition curator, ethnomusicologist (MMus SOAS, London University), film producer/editor and radio journalist and his work appears in a variety of contexts.
He curated the exhibitions Roots and Changes – The Gujarati Influences (Brent Museum), The first Indian Diva – The Courtesan and the Recording Industry at the Omnibus Theatre, London, ‘Gujarati Yatra – Journey of a People’ at the Museum of Croydon, ‘Utsavam’ – Music from India at the Horniman Museum, London, ‘Indian Strings and Dances’ at the Museum of Croydon and the online sound project of the British Library Sound Archive, Music from India.
Presently Rolf is the guest curator and researcher for non-European musical instruments (Musical Instrument Museum Markneukirchen, Germany.
Click here to visit Rolf Killius’s website.
Tarun Jasani: Script Writer / Film producer
Tarun Jasani is a writer, musician, composer, film director and a cinematographer. His background is in Indian Classical music as a sarodist. His first script was for ‘Gauhar Jaan – The Datia Incident’ performed at the Clapham Omnibus Theatre, South London in 2018. Tarun sees his own progress from classical music to script writing and film production on a continuum of ‘Vistar’, the concept in Indian classical music of expansion and stretching ideas. He aims at breaking free of some of the limited boundaries surrounding classical music which are imposed by this tradition. He works on all scales, grand and small as well as community arts projects that engage local young people. He has designed features and short films that have traveled across the globe and opened at film festivals too. He wrote, produced and directed ‘Aghori’ a Kurosawa influenced Spaghetti western film.
Lata Desai : Community Arts Producer/Project Manager
Lata has established herself as a successful arts producer in South London. She has built an excellent track record and experience in the management and delivery of arts and heritage projects like ‘ Gujarati Yatra – Journey of a people’ ; ‘Roots and Changes – Gujarati influences’ and ‘British Ugandan Asians@50’. Currently she is the Exhibitions Lead for a National Tour of British Ugandan Asians@50, a commemorative project celebrating 50 years of expulsion of Ugandan Asians. Lata has collected numerous oral histories of people who have emigrated to Britain and ‘Exodus’ play is her brain child where she is exploring creative use of these oral histories in a play. She leads a community arts organisation ‘Subrang Arts’ with whom she has successfully managed dance and music projects, events, festivals, arts workshops and commissions with regional, national and international artists. The immense range of art forms and cultures she has championed have an intrinsic value and are a benefit to the community as a whole. It is this career span as a practitioner that has given her a range of experience which she brings to bear in her role as a passionate Community Arts Leader.
https://www.gujaratiyatra.com
https://www.rootsandchangesgujaratiinfluences.com
https://www.subrangarts.co.uk
Rez Kabir: Story Teller
Award winning actor of stage and screen. Films – Zohra, The Infiltrator,
Unintentionhell and Banglatown.
Plays – East is East, Oslo, Kiterunner, Londonee, Gauhar Jaan, Two Headed Bird, and All Our Heroes.
He teaches theatre, storytelling, writing and community arts, and runs Tamarind Theatre in London.