Ashutosh Potdar

I am a writer of one-act and full-length plays, poems, short fiction, translations and essays. I have two collections of plays, a collection of poetry and an adaptation of a play to my credit. I have also presented my work in a curated show at a gallery in Pune and co-written a performance with an actor and designer in Bangalore that premiered at Sophiensaele in Berlin.
I have edited a volume of Greatest Marathi Stories Ever Told (Aleph Book Company) and, co-edited a volume of essays on performance-making and the archive, and an anthology of art writing in Marathi published by Routledge India and Sharjah Art Foundation respectively.
I edit हाकारा । hākārā, a peer-reviewed bilingual journal of creative expression published online in Marathi and English.
The areas of my research interest are Colonial Drama, Narrative Theory and Drama Studies and more recently, the connections between the archive and performance making.
I am Associate Professor of literature and drama at the department of Theatre and Performance Studies (School of Design, Art and Performance).