Bio
Swar Thounaojam is a playwright, theatre director and performer. She is a recipient of the Junior Fellowship from the Ministry of Culture, India, the Charles Wallace India Trust fellowship, the Robert Bosch Art Grant and the International Playwrights’ Residency, Royal Court Theatre, London. She co-wrote Flinntheater’s C sharp C blunt which won Best Original Script at META (Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards) 2014. Her plays include Turel, Fake Palindromes, Lucky Lobster, and Bogey Systems. She is currently working on Great Game East – a photography-video-performance project.