Aneesha is a writer, director and researcher from Pune, India. She is Resident Director at the Royal Court Theatre.

 

Recent directing credits include BROWN GIRLS DO IT TOO: Mama Told Me Not To Come (Soho Theatre & on tour: 2022) and OffComm commended Before I Was A Bear (2022, 2019) at the Soho & Bunker Theatres. Her play 10 ways to have the perfect conversation was R&Ded at the Gate Theatre in June 2021. Read some reviews of her work here.

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She was Assistant Producer on the award-winning documentary "Baiting the Scammers" on scammers and scambaiters in India for Channel News Asia (2022), produced by Black Leaf Films.

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Aneesha has conducted workshops on teaching, writing and researching identity at the Young Vic Theatre, the Central School of Speech and Drama, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and Part of the Main Theatre. She was on the curatorial panel for Guildhall's DISRUPT festival in 2021.

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