About
1982 born Rajkumar Rajak, is director –writer and has a vast experience of working as a theatre consultant and instructor for several organizations such as Action-Aid, Cry, Vihaan, Unnati, Save the Children and Garmin Shiksha Kendra and He is co-founder of Ex-tra An Organisation (Experimental Theatre in Realistic Attitude). Currently he is working with Mir (Sufi) Musicians in Bikaner, Rajasthan and mainly contributing with Azim Premji Foundation as a Teacher Educator for Drama in Education.
He is involved in the production of more than 80 plays. Naming a few are Eklavya, Tedha Darpan, Suraj kaa Saatwaan Ghoda, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, Sapne ka Anuvad, Punarjanm, Hawalat, Antigones and so on. During the course of his work he has also organized theatre activities on various developmental projects and theatre workshops for bar dancers, sex workers, railway platform dwellers, homeless children and rickshaw puller.
Rajkumar has presented a number of papers at various conferences organized by IFA, Goethe Institute Max Muller Bhavan, His few papers are on -‘From Cultural Relativism to Shared Values’,
He is a new performance grantee from “India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)”,-Bangalore where he has developed a method called character expression which gives an insight to an actor to craft his/her character in theatrical arena. He is an awardee of “INLAKS Theatre Award” from “Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation”, Mumbai for his research on Bertolt Brecht’s Verfremdungseffekt (Alienation Effect) where he has incorporated his method of character expression with Bertolt Brecht’s Verfremdungseffekt (Alienation Effect). He is a production grantee from Culture Ministry, Govt of India for constructing a play “Antaryatra”.
He has experience of working with national and international theatre personalities such as Probir Guha, Badal Sircar, Tormod Carlsen, Lova Evikson, B.V Karanth, Govind Gupta and Devendra Raj Ankur.