Sunday, June 9, 2024

SUMAN KUMAR PHOTO

सुमन कुमार SUMAN KUMAR
IMAGES / PHOTOGRAPHS / PHOTOS of Suman Kumar

SUMAN KUMAR  sumankumarang@gmail.com
Deputy Secretary (Drama/ICH/Folk&Tribal Arts), 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 30 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.

Suman has frequently conducted, directed theatre training workshops for NSD, Sangeet Natak Akademi, Sahitya Kala Parishad and is visiting faculty for the drama departments in the universities in India. He has conducted several expression-n-communication, Drama Therapy workshops for General Managers, Officers and Service Holders, Street and Specially Challenged Children.

Othello, Mecbeath, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagoni, The Playboy of the Western World, Exception and The Rule, Agni aur Varkha, Chekhov Ke Duniya, The Playboy of the Western World, Train to Pakistan, Mahamahim, Das Din ka Anshan, Swarglok Me Democracy, Black Board Bregade,Balchrit, Assi – Bahri Alang, Satyagrah, Boodhi Kaki, Kasap, etc.are the major plays directed by him.

Banaras Ki Subah Se Awadh Ki Shaam Tak, Nugra Ka Tamasa, Gadal, Parinde, Tsuipu The Dreamer, Kankal, Assi – Bahri Alang, Mahadev, Gagan Ghata Gahrani, Ek Tara Toota, Mahamahim, Abhishap, Samjhota, Das Din Ka anshan , Braham-rakshas , Kasap, Natwar Ne Bansuri Bajai etc are the performing scripts written by him.

Participated in an International Theatre Festival of Drama Schools at Copenhagen, Denmark in 1996 with a play "Tin Ka Nanha Sepoi" based on a Danish story " The Littke Tin Soldier".  Lead a cultural troupe to Peru and Cuba in 2012.

Awarded
Mahendra Excwllency 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 AkademiK. Best playwright award, Natsamarat, Delhi and Ras Kala Manch, Hisar, Haryana.

Working as Deputy Secretary(drama/ICH/Folk & Tribal Arts ) in Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi since April 2012. Member of Advisory Commitee on ICH (Intangible Cultural Heritage) and Memory of World Register.
















































































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