Anuja Ghosalkar and Kai Tuchmann

About the Speakers
Anuja Ghosalkar is a theatre practitioner and founder of Drama Queen, a Documentary Theatre company in India, since 2015. Her multi-disciplinary practice combines performance, visual arts, and critical inquiry, focusing on micro histories, archival lapses, counter-narratives, and questions around gender and transnational collaborations. Based in Bangalore, Ghosalkar’s work has been showcased globally, from the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and metaLAB at Harvard, Photo Kathmandu to Frascati in Amsterdam, and venues such as Hebbel am Ufer, Sophiensaele in Berlin, Hong Kong University, Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore. She has collaborated with award-winning theatre companies like Gob Squad and FlinnWorks. Ghosalkar’s writing has been featured in publications by Routledge, Bloomsbury Publishing, Narr Francke Attempto, and BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies. Her co-edited book, Documentary Theatre In India: Assembling Publics, Performing Politics, is published by Transcript Germany.

Kai Tuchmann graduated in directing from Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin and works as a dramaturg, director, and academic. His documentary theatre works have explored the afterlife of the Cultural Revolution in contemporary China, the impact of urbanisation on migrant workers in Europe and Asia, and the role of the body in the face of digital technologies. His works have been showcased at i-Dance Hong Kong, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Festival d’Automne à Paris, and documenta Institut, among others. Tuchmann co-developed the first BA dramaturgy curriculum in Asia at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, where he was a visiting professor. He has researched the history of dramaturgy as a Fulbright Scholar at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and worked as a curator for the Ludics Seminar at Harvard University.