About

Sukhesh Arora is an actor, performance-maker and educator. He has acted in films, and for the stage, and likes to make work which weaves together sound, theatre and games. Questions of agency and transformation, home and belonging drive his work.

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Sukhesh trained as an actor-teacher with the TAG TIE Co. in New Delhi, which at the time was led by British director Barry John. It was here that he developed a keen interest in theatre as an embodied form of learning, and its application in different contexts, particularly spaces for teaching and learning. Subsequently, he went on to study Physical Theatre at Royal Holloway College, London. He was the Artistic Director of the Imago TIE Company, New Delhi (2001-03), and in 2005, he founded Yellowcat Theatre, as a collaborative space to create new work for younger audiences.

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Sukhesh has over 20 years’ experience teaching and facilitating workshops in a wide variety of contexts. He was part of the core team at the National School of Drama, Delhi, which set up India’s first and only theatre-in-education program in Tripura. He also worked with the Elementary Education department in the University of Delhi to develop a theatre in education curriculum for pre-service teachers. He has designed workshops and learning spaces for diverse organisations such as Facebook, the German Development Cooperation (GIZ), the National Museum (New Delhi), Frei University (Berlin), and the University of Neuchâtel among others.

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In 2000, Sukhesh was awarded the Charles Wallace Fellowship, and in 2012, he was nominated by the U.S. Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs for the International Visitors’ Leadership Program (IVLP) as an emerging leader in the area of Arts & Social Change.

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In 2022, he was awarded a grant from the Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures (TESF) Network to research the relationship between theatre and the development of teacher agency in the classroom. In 2024, he was invited to give the keynote talk at the Scenario Forum Conference on Performative Teaching and Learning, Trinity College, Dublin.

 

Originally from Delhi, Sukhesh has been based in Berlin since 2018 and divides his time between the two.