Kirti Jain
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- Nemi Chandra Jain (father)
- Rekha Jain (mother)
Kirti Jain | |
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| Born | 11 December 1949 |
| Occupations | Theatre director, Professor |
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| Awards | Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2011) |
Kirti Jain is a theatre director from Prayagraj, India. She is a former director of National School of Drama. She received many awards and honors including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Direction in 2011.
Kirti Jain was born on 11 December 1949 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, to Nema Chandra Jain, a playwright and writer, and Rekha Jain, a children's playwright.[1]
She completed her M.A. in English literature from Delhi University.[2] She then completed her Diploma in Theatre with specialization in direction from the National School of Drama (1969–1972).[2] She also studied Kathak dance under Maya Rao at the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra, Delhi.[1]
Career
Kirti Jain started her career as a producer at Doordarshan, Delhi in 1972.[1]
Kirti Jain is a trustee of the Natarang Pratishthan, a theatre archives and documentation centre based in Uttar Pradesh.[3] She was a member of the editorial board of Studies in Theatre and Performance, a theatre journal published by the University of Exeter, England, and has contributed essays to the Companion to the Indian Theatre and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, published by Oxford University Press.[4]
At National School of Drama
Kirti was appointed as an associate professor of Indian Theatre History at the National School of Drama in 1977, later becoming a professor of Modern Indian drama and serving as its director from 1988 to 1995.[5] During this period, she started the National School of Drama's Theatre in Education (TIE) programme to promote children's theatre, Documentation and Publishing programmes, and also established the National School of Drama's Regional Research Centre in Bangalore.[3] She also initiated the National School of Drama's collaboration with theatre departments in foreign universities, particularly those in the UK, Poland and Germany.[1]
