Indhu Rubasingham

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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.^[1] Her interest in theatre was ignited by a spell of work experience at Nottingham Playhouse as a teenager.^[2] 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.^[3]

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

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