A Yagnya is a collaborative theatre maker and Japanese translator.
Yagnya’s playwrighting credits include Between 5 Cows and the Deep Blue Sea...(Previously read at Esplanade’s Raga 2020), The Oven Storyஅவன் கதை (3Pumpkins, 2020), Hi, Can You Hear Me? (Playwrights’ Cove 2020), and subTITLED 1.0 (Bridging the Gap Collective, 2021). She has also co-written for GroundZ_0’s Prism of Truth (Huayi 2020), interpreted for ITI’s Noh Theatre Module, acted in Goddesses of Words: Angry Indian Women (Textures 2020), and dramaturged for (un)becoming (Festival of Women N.O.W. 2021). She was also a participant in a Devising for Actors and Playwrights 2021 programme by The Necessary Stage (TNS) and was engaged in a Lab with TNS on using AI in performance making.
Yagnya enjoys creating socially conscious works that challenge her audience into breaking out of their echo chambers. @iggyeggieggyagnya
Photography by Kamesh Raja
Last updated: 27 July 2022