Script & Direction: Suman Kumar (NSD)

(M) 9650170777 - Email: sumankumarang@gmail.com 
Deputy Secretary (Drama/ICH), Sangeet Natak Akademi 
Graduated from NSD, New Delhi in 1996 in Production Process and a course in Design from Mountview Theatre School, London in 1998. Suman is B.Ed. from Patna University and is honours in Physics from Magadh university. 
Suman has directed plays, explored themes, improvised situations, written musicals, devised stage versions on poems and other non-dramatic-texts. Shakespeare, Chekhov, Brecht, O’Neill, J. M. Synge, Bhishm Sahni, Premchand, Harishankar Parsai, Neruda, Muktibodh ,Simborshka, Dhumil, Rajkamal Chaudhary and Faiz were the sources for his dramatic mounting on stage. He has written about 40 performing scripts for stage. 
Given Contemporary Hindustani expressions to the concepts and theories popular in the world theatre, theatre training methodologies and practices with an historical perspective. Written on Stanislavasky, Grotowaski, Michal Saint Danish, Brecht, Augusto Boul, Peter Brook, Kalidasa, Natyashastra 
Awarded 
Mahendra Excellency Award for Best Playwright, 2012. National Culture Junior Fellowship (04-05), Fellowship from National School of Drama on “ Production-Process”, Research Grant from Sangeet Natak Akademi and Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship in 1998 for studying in UK.