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Mrityunjay Prabhakar
Mrityunjay Prabhakar
	Theatre Director, Playwright and Poet
Born	September 14, 1979 (age 45); Nalanda, Bihar
Nationality	Indian
Other names	Mrityunjay Kumar Prabhakar
Occupation(s)	playwright, theatre director, theatre teacher, theatre critic,Poet

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Mrityunjay Prabhakar (born 14 September 1979) is an Indian Theatre Director, Dramatist, Theatre Critic, Faculty of Theatre and Poet. He is one of the celebrated young theatre directors of India for his language loaded with socio-political concerns. He is an Assistant Professor of Drama & Theatre Art in Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan.

Early life and education

Born in a lower middle class family of a village in Nalanda(Bihar). He has joined Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for his studies and research in Theatre and Performance Studies in the School of Arts & Aesthetics in 2004.

Career

He started his theatre career from Patna during his graduation days. He has worked with several theatre groups like Abhiyan, Prerna, Manch Art group and Prangan in Patna. Later, he co-founded the group Abhiyan along with his friends. When he arrived Delhi for his further studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Here he worked with famous groups like Rang Saptak, Bahroop and Dastak. Later he founded his own group named SEHAR in 2005 and started working rigorously. He has got trained under leading figures of Indian Drama and Theatre world through different workshops he attended like Habib Tanvir, B. V. Karanth, Prasanna, Ratan Thiyam, D. R. Ankur and many more. He has worked with directors like D.R. Ankur, Lokendra Arambam, H. S. Shivaprakash, Surendra Sharma, Parvez Akhtar, Vijay Kumar, Javed Akhtar Khan, Suman Kumar and others. He has worked as an Actor, Director, Set designer, light designer and organizer in theatre.

Presently, he works primarily as a Theatre Director and Playright with his group SEHAR. He is the founder-director of theatre troupe, SEHAR (Society of Education, Harmony, Art, Culture and Media Reproduction) (Registered under Society Act) in 2007. He has directed more than two dozens plays among them 'Sabse Udas Kavita',^[1]

'Khwahishen',^[2] 'Jee Humen To Natak Karna Hai',^[3]'Dhruvswamini',^[4] 'Vithalala' and 'Suicide'^[5] have got special attention from the larger section of the society. He has also written plays like 'Aao Natak Natak Khelen', 'Khwahishen'

, 'Jee Humen To Natak Karna Hai', 'Suicide', 'Hey Ram', 'Teri Meri Kahani Hai', 'Karnav' and others, which has been performed by different groups and directors in various theatre centres of the country. He has adopted famous Keniyan playwright Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's play 'The Black Hermit' as 'Jayen To Jayen Kahan'. The adoptation was first performed by NSDNational School of Drama Graduate Randhir Kumar in 2005 in Patna. Later he reproduced the play in 2010 with SEHAR in Delhi. He has adopted H.S. Shivaprakash famous Kannad play 'Mochi Madaiah' in Hindi which was directed by Lokendra Arambam and published by Yash Publication, Delhi. An anthology on Contemporary Indian Theatre titled 'Samkaleen Rangkarm' is also credited on his name published by InkLit Publication. His Hindi Poetry Collection 'Jo Mere Bheetar Hain' was published by Akademi of Letters (Sahitya AkademiSahitya Akademi), India.

He has been teaching Performing Arts, Communication and Indian Aesthetics in various institutions like IIT Mandi, IIMC, New Delhi, NCERT, New Delhi and College of Art, Delhi. Presently, he is an Assistant Professor of Drama & Theatre Arts in Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan.

Awards and recognition

He has been awarded Bihar Kala Samman by Bihar Govt on the occasion of completion of hundred years of Bihar for his writings in the field of performing arts in 2012. He has also been awarded 'Yuva Shabdsadhak Samman' for his poem by famous Hindi magazine Pakhi.

Works

Plays

'Sadho Dekho Jag Baudana', 'Aao Natak Natak Khelen', 'Khwahishen', 'Jee Humen To Natak Karna Hai', 'Suicide', 'Hey Ram', 'Teri Meri Kahani Hai', 'Karnav', 'Jayen To Jayen Kahan', 'Mochi Madaiah',

Books

'Samkaleen Rangkarm', 'Jo Mere Bheetar Hain', 'Sadho Dekho Jag Baudana', 'Jayen To Jayen Kahan', 'Mochi Madaiah', 'Colonial/Postcolonial Bihar and Jharkhand'.^[6]

Poetry Collection

'Jo Mere Bheetar Hain'

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