Sankar Venkateswaran is an Indian theatre director. Born in Calicut, Kerala, Venkateswaran studied directing at the School of Drama and Fine Arts, University of Calicut, after which he trained at the Theatre Training and Research Programme (currently Intercultural Theatre Institute) in Singapore.

In 2007, he founded Theatre Roots & Wings, and directed Richard Murphet’s Quick Death (2007), Sahyande Makan - The Elephant Project (2008), Ohta Shogo’s Water Station (2011), 101 Lullabies (2012), and Henrik Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken (2012). In 2013 he received the Ibsen Scholarship from Teater Ibsen, Norway, for Tribal Ibsen Project which furthered his work with the indigenous people in Attappadi, Kerala. He also built a theatre in the region, named Sahyande Theatre, and lives and works among the communities. His works have been shown at various venues and festivals including Zurich Theater Spektakel, Spielart Munich, Kyoto Experiment, Zoukak Sidewalks in Beirut, and Theater Commons Tokyo.

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