AANSHIK

Santanu Mallick – completed his B.F.A. (Hons.) and M.F.A. in Theatre from Rabindra Bharati University. He has actively participated in various national and international theatre festivals. He was awarded as a Mime Artiste from Song and Drama division, in the year 2003 and has received National Scholarship from Ministry of Culture (Government of India) as a Theatre Director in 2006. Santanu has put in use his acuity to a variety of production projects ranging from European drama to major adaptations of Bengali masterpieces and Indian plays, extensively. Santanu has also been awarded for Best Story from Qumun North West Film Festival for his short film “Retrospection” in 2011 at Qatar.
Besides performances of Arial lyrical mime at several countries, concentration has been towards Ancient Indian method of acting for over a decade also involving the dance style Kathakali at various Classical Dance Festivals. His other stage production called ‘Gaze’ which was written, designed and directed under him and produced by Shriram Centre for Performing Arts, New Delhi has been staged on March 2015. Santanu was also invited by Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA as a guest theatre artist to attend one month artist residency in June 2016. One of the finest works named, ‘Paul Gomra- A transmigration’ has travelled to many Theatre Festivals of India including Jairangam 2017, Kolkata Inter-Language Theatre Festival 2017, Arghya International Theatre Festival, Kolkata 2018, Moradokmai Theatre Festival, Thailand.
He has been working as a mentor in Theatre & Drama since 12 years in India & abroad. He comes with varied experience in teaching Cambridge and IB. He has been associated with Doha Film Institute, Cleveland Museum of Art, USA, Rabindra Bharati University, St. Stephen College, Indraprastha College for women, Northern India Engineering College as a Performing Arts practitioner. He is currently a guest director & designer of Sriram Centre for Performing Arts.