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Brief bio-note

Gautam Raja is a freelance journalist and writer from Bangalore, India. He lives in Los Angeles. He has worked for publications in Oman and the UAE.

A collection of plays, Damini the Damager and Other Plays, was published in March 2006 by Unisun Publications. His play Vaidehi was selected by the Lark Play Development Center, New York City, as one of eight plays to be showcased at their Playwrights' Week, in September 2006. Vaidehi was presented at the New Play Workshops of Chautauqua Theater Company at the Chautauqua Institution, New York, in July 2007.

Theatre bio

Mar 2008 and Oct 2007: 'The Invisible River' in Bangalore
The full-length play The Invisible River by Gautam Raja was presented by Jagriti as part of Theatre Science India.

July 2007: 'Vaidehi' at Chautauqua
Gautam's full-length play Vaidehi was presented at the New Play Workshops of Chautauqua Theater Company at the Chautauqua Institution, New York.

Sept 2006: 'Vaidehi' at the Lark
Vaidehi was selected as one of eight plays to be presented at the Playwrights' Week at the Lark Play Development Center, New York City.

March 2006: Book of plays
A collection of Gautam's plays Damini the Damager and Other Plays was published by Unisun Publications.

2005 and earlier
His plays Wood and Pub Crawl have seen several shows in Bangalore, as well as Hyderabad and Chennai.

Shards, a collection of short pieces was staged by the Artistes' Repertory Theatre at the Questors' Theatre in London in 1998.

In 1996, Gautam attended the Royal Court Theatre's International Summer School in London. There, he worked on his full-length play Pecking Orders, which was staged at the Asian Age Theatre Festival in 1997.

His first full-length play, Restless, was co-authored with Minakshi Menon, a Dubai-based consultant writer. It was the inaugural production of the youth wing of Artistes' Repertory Theatre.

He started writing in 1994, after attending a workshop by leading Indian playwright Mahesh Dattani. His one-act play Admission was selected as one of the two plays of the workshop to be showcased at a performance at R&B Cafe
in Bangalore.

Gautam is the resident writer and lighting designer of the family venture that is Bangalore's leading theatre group: Artistes' Repertory Theatre.