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

Borrowing from the Theatre Classroom: Thriving in an Arts Organization
“I don’t really know what I’m doing..” James quipped and I enthusiastically echoed the statement, both of us bursting into laughter. A few weeks after I moved to Boston to begin teaching at Emerson College, I received a phone call from my teacher-friend from grad school James Peck. Even though there was plenty to catch […]

The Serious Art of Puppetry: In Conversation with Anurupa Roy
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 […]

Discovering Mythologies and Traditional Forms through Nimmy Raphel and V Balakrishnan
I waited anxiously, having just refreshed my distant memories of watching Mahabharata on TV on Sunday mornings as a child and being forced to listen to stories of myth and folklore by my grandmother. I rapidly read through an online abridged Britannica essay on the epics in a last-minute attempt to prevent myself from saying […]
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Post Graduate Certificate Course in Acting and Theatre-Making
ONE YEAR | FULL TIME | 2023-24

Our flagship program at DSM, the
One Year Post Graduate Certificate Course (full-time in-person), will equip you:
With essential skills, tools, and methods required to be a strong performer & creator
To work effectively with your independent thinking, creativity & imagination
Build your self-awareness as a performer
To develop an awareness of your environment
To build the physical and mental discipline