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Indhu Rubasingham is the artistic director of the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, London. She succeeded Nicolas Kent in 2012.
Rubasingham was born in Sheffield, the child of Sri Lankan immigrants. She was educated at Nottingham Girls' High School. Her interest in theatre was ignited by a spell of work experience at Nottingham Playhouse as a teenager. She studied drama at Hull University, before working at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, where she assisted Mike Leigh, and working as an associate director at the Gate Theatre, the Young Vic and the Birmingham Rep.
Rubasingham began her tenure at the Tricycle with Red Velvet, a play by Lolita Chakrabarti about the actor Ira Aldridge. The production starred Adrian Lester.
Notable productions
- Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti, Tricycle Theatre, 2012
- Belong by Bola Agbaje, Royal Court Theatre, 2012
- Stones in His Pockets by Marie Jones, Tricycle Theatre, 2011
- Ruined by Lynn Nottage, Almeida Theatre, 2010
- Women, Power and Politics, by various authors including Moira Buffini and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Tricycle Theatre, 2010
- Disconnect by Anupama Chandrasekhar, Royal Court Theatre, 2010
- Detaining Justice by Bola Agbaje, Tricycle Theatre, 2009
- The Great Game (with Nicolas Kent), Tricycle Theatre, 2009
- Wuthering Heights, adapted by April De Angelis from the novel by Emily Brontë, Birmingham Rep, 2008
- Free Outgoing by Anupama Chandrasekhar, Royal Court Theatre, 2007
- Sugar Mummies by Tanika Gupta, Royal Court Theatre, 2006
- Fabulation by Lynn Nottage, Tricycle Theatre, 2006
- Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz, Hampstead Theatre, 2004
- Yellowman by Dael Orlandersmith, Liverpool Everyman and Hampstead Theatre, 2003
- The Misanthrope by Molière, in an adaptation by Martin Crimp, Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 2002
- Romeo and Juliet, Chichester Festival Theatre, 2002
- Clubland by Roy Williams, Royal Court Theatre, 2001
- The Waiting Room by Tanika Gupta, National Theatre, 2000
- Ramayana, Birmingham Rep, 2000
- Lift Off by Roy Williams, Royal Court Theatre, 1999
References
- The Girls' Day School Trust website.
- Stephen Moss, profile of Indhu Rubasingham, Guardian, 19 June 2012
- Evening Standard profile by Liz Hoggard, 9 October 2012
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