Sharanya Ramprakash is a Bengaluru based theatre maker. She places her work in the intersection between gender, tradition and language, with a focus on Kannada culture. She writes, acts, directs and collaborates with a range of forms, communities and theatre makers across local, national and international locations. Her work is research based, collaborative and exploratory. She is an INLAKS scholar and Member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, New York. She is the recipient of the Shankar Nag Theatre Award 2022. She can be found on Instagram @sharanya.ramprakash.

Shilpa Mudbi Kothakota is an artist currently living in Kalaburgi, Karnataka, India. Born and brought up in Bengaluru, India she graduated in Media Arts and production from Sydney, Australia. She has been in the field of social justice as a social activist and media consultant with NGOs working on youth, women and child rights. She taught Documentary filmmaking in Mount Carmel Collage, Bengaluru and has worked at Ranga Shankara Theatre Bengaluru as a Program Coordinator. She is the Co-founder of Urban Folk Project, a collective that looks that collating of folk knowledge systems of North Karnataka. She has been a Karnataka Janapada Academy member for the three years 2019 to 2022. She is currently on the Academic Advisory Committee of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), Bengaluru. She can be found on Instagram @shilpamudbi.

Mandeep Raikhy is a dance practitioner with a particular interest in exploring the
intersections between performance, research, pedagogy and activism. He completed a
BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre at Laban in 2002 and then toured with Shobana Jeyasingh
Dance Company, London between 2005 – 2009. Mandeep has created several dance
works, notably Inhabited Geometry (2010), a male ant has straight antennae (2013),
Queen-size (2016), Anatomy of Belief (2019), Hallucinations of an Artifact (2023).
These works have travelled across the country and internationally. Mandeep has also
worked to develop a supportive environment for contemporary dance in India through
several initiatives since 2008 such as the Gati Dance Forum, Khuli Khirkee and the
M.A. Performance Practice (Dance) at Ambedkar University, Delhi. He can be found
on Instagram @mandeepraikhy.

Silen Wellington (they/he) is a sculptor of sound, artist of people, storyteller, witch,
composer, genderqueer shapeshifter, and lover, among other things. They make art as
an act of service, healing, disruption and magic. Avidly interdisciplinary, they like to
combine art mediums such as spoken word, visual art, ritual performance, loud and
fiery eye contact, otherworldly and melting trysts, or something else entirely. In all
aspects of their life, they aim to create spaces that provoke people to come closer to
their authentic selves. Learn more at: www.silenwellington.com. You can find them on
Instagram @silen_creature.

Sarover Zaidi is a teacher, writer, and academic, and has studied philosophy and social
anthropology. She works at the intersections of critical theory, anthropology, art,
architecture, and material culture studies. She has extensively worked on religious
architecture, and urbanism in the city of Bombay and co-runs a site on writing the city
called Chiragh Dilli. She currently works on carceral cities, religious iconography &
modernist architecture in south Asia. She has previously taught at the School of
Planning and Architecture, Delhi. She volunteers at the Muslim Women’s Forum for the
past five years, and has recently been teaching at Sewagram, Wardha. She currently
teaches at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, O. P. Jindal University, Sonipat,
India. She can be found on Instagram @saroverz.

Diya Naidu is an independent artist based in Bangalore and Mumbai, India. A versatile
choreographer, dancer, performer, facilitator, and arts organizer, she founded Citizens
of Stage Co Lab, a collective dedicated to sustainability in dance through community
engagement. Diya’s work spans multiple artistic forms, with recent performances
including Ceremony of Longing in India and at Kampnagel, Hamburg. She recently
developed a piece with Swiss choreographer Jozsef Trefeli, exploring how different
cultures approach the aging body, that premiered in Bengaluru, November 2024. Diya
has curated dance for Shoonya Centre for Art and Somatic Practices and performed
internationally with companies like Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts. Her work
has been showcased globally in festivals such as The Park Festival, Korzo Theatre
Festival, and the Hindu Theatre Festival. A recipient of numerous grants, including the
Pro Helvetia Co-creation grant, she is a mentor and movement director for various
theatre projects. She can be found on Instagram @diyanise.