About Drama School Mumbai
Drama School Mumbai was founded in 2013 to forge a new generation of theatre-makers; actor-creator-entrepreneurs professionally trained to perform and create work to a higher global standard of storytelling. Our alumni are all highly active, founding theatre groups, acting in award-winning plays, working in films as well as applying their craft in education and corporate-training.
We work with a faculty comprising of the best theatre practitioners, actors, playwrights, directors, theatre designers and producers.
Armed with fundamental skills in performance, direction and producing, our graduates embark on making their own livings and careers in the theatrical arts, contributing to a gradual development of the sector with work that aims to be of a higher standard for all audiences.
Drama School Mumbai also works to promote the awareness of theatre and its processes to a wider audience interested in exploring and understanding the medium for themselves through shorter workshops, lectures, and regular presentations of work created by the students and faculty.
News & Insights

Unrehearsed Futures (S4) #6 Reimagining Boal for the 21st Century
After a rejuvenating conversation with Ieva Česnulaitytė last month around active citizenship and participatory democracy, we at Unrehearsed Futures returned to Brazilian practitioner Augusto Boal and his body of work with the Theatre of the Oppressed, to investigate how we could revisit his powerful ideas today. A theatre-maker and political activist, Boal elaborated on his […]

Subodh Patnaik’s theatre for community empowerment in Odisha
Editor’s Note: India has a rich history in theatre, but our knowledge about the work our contemporaries and older groups have and are doing, is often limited to the geographies we live in. Driven by a curiosity to know about the work being created across the country, over the next couple of months, we will […]

Appropriation, authenticity and the “woke” artist in between
Let’s dive straight in. Let’s look at two dictionary definitions — Woke: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues, especially issues of racial and social justice. The title to this article places the word woke in double quotes as “woke” to indicate a kind of hollow, hyper-alertness. Cultural Appropriation: the unacknowledged or inappropriate […]
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Post Graduate Certificate Course in Acting and Theatre-Making
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