pangea world theater............the beginning of a powerful revolution

Pangea World Theater is committed to international works, styles and traditions that illuminate the human condition, end divisiveness and celebrate differences. We strive to bring communities across the world together through theater productions, workshops and speakers. We view the stage as a powerful international forum and a podium for discussion. Throughout our work we employ a cross-ethnic vision of tolerance and human rights through excellence in the arts....

artistic director...

Dipankar is a professional director originally from Calcutta, India. He brings with him international experience and intensive training in both classical literature and directing. He was one of the founding members of a professional theater in India and has worked extensively there, directing plays in English, Hindi, Bengali and other Indian languages....

He directed Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht at the Guthrie Theater, A Raisin in the Sun with the Nevada Arts Council, Conference of the Birds, The Winged Seed, The Inner World, Playland, Bearing Witness and Rashomon with Pangea World Theater, Nagamandala with the New World Theater in Massachusetts, and Don Quixote de la Minny at Teatro del Pueblo. He is the recent recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Video Documentation award and a Jerome Travel and Study Grant.

Executive/Literary Director

Meena Natarajan is the Executive and Literary Director of Pangea World Theater and a professional playwright. She is committed to creating an international ensemble of actors, writers and designers in Pangea and bringing exciting classical and contemporary literature from all over the world to the Twin Cities. She was instrumental in founding and leading a theater company in India.

As a playwright, her scripts have been professionally produced in India and the United States. She has created, written and performed in mainstage and street theater pieces in India raising issues such as social injustice, corruption and dowry deaths. She has guided the theater’s growth and vision since its founding in 1995. In the U.S., she adapted Farid Ud-din Attar’s 12th century poem Conference of the Birds into a dramatic script for Pangea World Theater’s inaugural production in 1996. She adapted The Inner World based on two-thousand year old Tamil poems of love and war produced in 1998. Her most recent production was In the Mirror, a satire on the media written with the Pangea World Theater ensemble that premiered in Spring 2005.

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