Titas Samuho

A post-graduate from London International School of Performing Arts, Titas has been a practicing theatre maker and performer for more than two decades working for NSD Repertory Company, The Company Theatre, Shapeshift Collective and many more national and international theatre companies. She/they is a queer theatre maker and arts leader based out of Kolkata. She/they has been performing extensively across Europe, Australia and Asia for most of their performing career. She/they was instrumental in the formative years of TCT Workspace Kamshet, Maharashtra and Kolkata Centre for Creativity’s performing arts department. She/they is one of the founder members of  the  women and queer theatre collective ‘Birati Samuho Performer’s Collective’ (Samuho) founded in April 2019 where her/their research on performativity of gender marginalised bodies in public/performance space has been manifesting into live creations. She/they advocate for inclusive content and practice, accessibility of theatre for all, safe space for actors/performers and self-sustenance of creative organisations in her/their creative practice. Looking at the world through a queer feminist lens, she/they try to explore, reimagine and recreate the forgotten/erased history of marginalised people across intersections. She/they was a fellow of the Future Leaders Fellowship by Australian Council for the Arts (Creative Australia) in 2022 and a recipient of Third Bell Playwriting Fellowship by Bhasha Centre, Bengaluru.