Anand Rajaram, author portrait

Anand Rajaram

Anand was recently in Chariots of Fire (Grand), Invisible Hand (Aquarius), and Mustard (Tarragon, Dora 2016). Before that, he was in Cloud by Danny Pagett, Leading Ladies at Thousand Island Playhouse (TIP), Comedy of Errors, also at TIP, Aquarius and Western Canada Theatre. Other recent work includes Outside The March's TomorrowLove, and The 39 Steps (Dora nomination), Noises Off (acting and assistant director) and his play Communist 'Til Payday (all at Soulpepper). Other theatre includes shows with Videocabaret, Corpus, Stratford, Second City, CanStage, Puppetmongers, Odyssey. Recent film, TV and voice work includes CBC Radio's Because News, The Complete 150, Men With Brooms, Suits, Look Again, Beeba Boys, Dating Guy. He is also Artistic Director of @N@f@N@ and of Dishoom! South Asian Performance festival. With @N@f@N@, he created and performed in Hys Unauthoryzed Lyfe & Tymes, Stories From A Mountaintop, Aarthi & Akash, and the award-winning mime fantasia, Cowboys & Indians. He is currently at York University pursuing a Masters.

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