Varshini Pichemuthu

producer

Originally from Singapore and now based in London, Varshini believes play is essential to wellbeing and that creativity is our birthright. Her practice is rooted in creating spaces for people to connect, reflect, and imagine new possibilities, using theatre as a platform to explore social issues through a reflective practice of hope.

She is an applied theatre practitioner, performer, director, producer, and spoken word enthusiast who has worked with organisations including Theatre for a Change, Eastside, Seenaryo, and Polka Theatre. Her projects have included working with young girls in care in India, facilitating drama and spoken word residencies, and creating theatre with adults with learning difficulties. She has also directed performances with young refugees and asylum seekers, trained facilitators in an interactive radio drama project tackling vaccine misinformation in Nigeria and Senegal, and managed a cross-cultural theatre project with refugee women in London and Lebanon.

Varshini was formerly Co-Artistic Director of RootPrints Theatre and is currently the Open Space and Community Participation Producer at Improbable as well as a lead practitioner on Kiln Theatre’s Arrive, Build, Create programme, delivering drama workshops for newly arrived young people in the UK. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.