Rachana Jadhav
Rachana is an award-winning British South Asian Theatre Designer and Illustrator, and has been practising design for theatre, dance and opera for more than 20 years, during which time she has created a diverse portfolio of work incorporating illustration, animation and film with spatial design and live performance. Her production design works include collaborations with prominent artists such as Tim Crouch’s Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation, a play presented through the parallel worlds of stage action and illustrated text (Royal Court/ National Theatre of Scotland); Clare Cunningham’s Menage a Trois, a contemporary dance piece (National Theatre Scotland); Seeta Patel’s Shree, a solo dance piece complimenting The Rite of Spring (Sadler’s Wells/ The Lowry); and Emma Rice‘s adaptation of The Buddha of Suburbia (RSC/Barbican). Rachana has worked with prominent South Asian companies such as Tara and Tamasha Theatre companies and is also Co-Artistic Director of Brolly Productions founded in 2010 whose work make visible the hidden and sensitive histories of minority communities in contemporary Britain and develops new roles for under-represented artists.