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Indhu Rubasingham is an English theatre director and the current artistic director of the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, London.

Early life

Born in Sheffield to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka, Rubasingham was educated at Nottingham Girls' High School, after which she studied drama at Hull University.

Career

Freelance directing

Soon after graduating Hull University, she won an Arts Council Bursary to work as an assistant director at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, where she assisted director Mike Leigh and worked on a range of theatre from pantomime and musicals to new writing plays. She then went on to work as an associate director at the Gate Theatre (London), the Young Vic, and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

Notable freelance directing work includes productions at the National Theatre (most recently in 2015 Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Motherfucker with the Hat as part of Rufus Norris' inaugural season), West End, The Royal Court (including Belong, Disconnect, Free Outgoing, Lift Off, Clubland, The Crutch and Sugar Mummies), Almeida Theatre (most notably Ruined), Chichester Festival Theatre (including Secret Rapture, Romeo & Juliet, and The Misanthrope), Hampstead Theatre, Birmingham Rep Theatre (for instance an adaptation of the Ramayana for Birmingham Rep which went on to perform at the National Theatre), Liverpool Everyman, Theatre Royal Stratford East and St Ann’s Warehouse, New York. She has also worked in Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Uganda and India.

She has further directed radio plays for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3 and the BBC World Service.

Tricycle Theatre

Indhu Rubasingham succeeded Nicolas Kent as Artistic Director of the Tricycle Theatre in 2012. Rubasingham’s inaugural production was the multi award-winning Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti (Evening Standard Award and Critics’ Circle Award), which transferred to New York in April 2014 and London’s West End in January 2016 as part of the Kenneth Branagh ‘Plays at the Garrick’ season. Red Velvet is based on the story of Ira Aldridge, the first black actor to play Othello on a London stage in 1833. 

Indhu further directed Moira Buffini’s Handbagged at the Tricycle Theatre in autumn 2013, where it won an Olivier Award for ‘Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre’ and transferred to the West End in 2014 with a subsequent National Tour in 2015. Handbagged was also nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy. 

Other Tricycle productions directed include Paper Dolls, The House That Will Not Stand, Multitudes, A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes and The Invisible Hand. 

In August 2014, while she was artistic director, the Tricycle Theatre was at the centre of a controversy over the funding of the UK Jewish Film Festival.

In 2017, Indhu was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List.

Other awards include the Asian Women of Achievement Award and the Liberty Human Rights Award.

Rubasingham is currently rehearsing Ugly Lies the Bone by Lindsey Ferrentino for the National Theatre, opening in February 2017.

Notable productions

References

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