Akhshay have been working in Theatre as Actor & Director over past 14 years. He has performed at prestigious venues including, Stanford University, Gessnerallee (Zurich), Off-off-broadway, Spoken Fest, International Hockey World Cup to name a few.
Trained with internationally acclaimed artists and companies: SITI COMPANY (NYC), ELLEN LAUREN (SITI & SCOT), Anne Bogart, Eugenio Barba & ODIN TEARET (DENMARK), Veenpani Chawla & Adishakti (INDIA), Amy Russell (LONDON).
His acting has ranged from realistic plays to physical theatre to traditional forms to text-centric as well as expressive movement work.
Started his camera journey recently with Sony Channel’s promo for Prithviraj Chauhan & Jio Hotstar’s art of making.
(Writer, Director & Performer)
A collaboration with Media & Projection Artist, Gaurav Singh Nijjer (Delhi).
The performance is a hard hitting portrait of modern life and the absurdity of being alive.
Its an immersive experience of our relationship with self.
MANTHAN
(Writer & Performer)
A collaboration with Mohiniyattam Dancer. Divya Wariar (Mumbai).
The performance blends Storytelling, Paintings, Dance & Music to take the audience on a journey of Manthans (Churnings).
Commissioned by Serendipity Arts Festival
MAYA: A kaavad katha
(Writer, Director & Performer)
A collaboration with Visual Artist, Rohit Bhasi (Indigoranges)
The performance is a revival of a storytelling traition from Rajasthan. A story with in a story with in a story structure taking the audience through an interconnected web of stories across time & space.
GRETEL
(Deviser & Performer)
A reimagination of hansel & gretel story. Gretel explodes with physical theatre, mime, absurdity and live music.
Directed by Rebecca spurgeon & devised with Ashiqa Salvan.
Music by Anant Menon & Vedant Bhardwaj
Key projects as Director
EPIC!
Commissioned by NCPA
A performance which is a modern take on Ramayana.
Moin & the Monster
Commissioned by Neev Lit Festival
A play for children set in magic realism world of a boy named Moin & his friend, a monster.
Tara’s Trio
Produced by Collective Madness
A play written by Asif Ali Baig about a girl and her 3 imaginary friends, Imagination, Boredom & Technology
Flyover Country
Commissioned by BeFantastic & Jaaga
A collaboration with Yakshgana Artists interpreting Eames demetrios’s alternative universe.
Burn My Diaries
A story of a woman defying her limitation to exist as one person navigating through her mind.
Umbrellas
A kannada language absurd play by Chandrashekhar Patil. A two performance meditating on time, meaning-making & memory.
Clearing the Rubble
A radio play by Mahesh Dattani imagined for stage. The play is about 3 characters after Gujarat’s earthquake rescue operation
AKHSHAY’s TRAINING
- Akhshay’s most recent training has been 1 year mentorship with Ellen Lauren (SCOT & SITI) and Barney O’ Hanley (SITI). It focused on finer details of Suzuki Method & Viewpoints training.
- Trained with Anne Bogart & SITI Company over a year as part of their Conservatory program. Focusing on Suzuki Method & Viewpoints along with advanced work in Voice, Text & Movement.
- Performance Dramaturgy intensive training with Eugenio Barba & Odin Teatret, Denmark.
- Multiple trainings at Adishakti Laboratory with Veenapani Chawlaji and team.
- Multiple short trainings in Lecoq based performance ecology with Amy Russell
- Dramaturgy with Sophia Stef and Sound & Space Dramaturgy with UK based Complicite
- Writing for performance with Abhishek Majumdar & Irawati Karnik
- Devising theatre with Abhishek Majumdar & Sandeep Shikhar
- Performance training with H Tomba, Sankar Ventakeshwaran, Prabhat Bhaskaran
- Movement training with Veena Basavarajaiah
AKHSHAY’s TEACHING CREDITS
- Facilitate training in Suzuki Method & Viewpoints.
- Visiting Faculty at Drama School Mumbai, Lalit Kala Kendra & Rangshila Theatre.
- Voice & Text for actors and performer (beginner’s and advanced)
- Storyteller’s craft (creating & performing stories)
- Impulse, Intuition & Playfulness as methodology for actor training
- Fundamentals of Acting for actors across medium & form.
- Voice & Speaking for non-actors, leaders, executives, politicians etc.
