Pankaj Tiwari
Director
Pankaj Tiwari is a contemporary artist, theatre maker, writer and curator from Balrampur, India. He is currently based in Amsterdam and holds a master's degree in theatre from DAS Theatre Amsterdam. His works bring Eastern perspectives to the Western discourse on socio-political issues.
Pankaj is also the winner of the 3Package Deal award (2021-22) from the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. Between 2020 and 2023, he worked as a curator for Gessnerallee Zurich. He is now the artistic director of Stichting Studio Current in Amsterdam.
Both today and in the past, Pankaj's work has been invited and supported by several festivals and production houses. These include Steirischer Herbst Graz (2025), MC93 Bobigny (2025), Theater Rotterdam (2025), Kaaitheater Brussels (2024), DE SINGEL Antwerp (2023, 2024), Grand Theatre Groningen (2020, 2023, 2024), SpielArt Munich (2023), Holland Festival Amsterdam (2023), Belluard Bollwerk Fribourg (2023), wpZimmer Antwerp (2023), Zürcher Theaterspektakel Zurich (2020, 2023), University of Minnesota Minneapolis (2022, 2023), Radialsystem Berlin (2022), Over het IJ Festival Amsterdam (2022), Santarcangelo Festival Italy (2020, 2021), performingborderslive UK (2020), Veem House for Performance Amsterdam (2020).
