Ishwar is an experienced freelance theatre director and writer, who originally trained at ARTTS International as an actor, where he co-wrote his group’s first public performance and their graduation show. He has over 25 years experience in the industry. He is also the artistic director of Company O Theatre in England, which he founded in 2006 to promote new writing, adaptations and installations. He is also co- artistic director of Teattrei Vertigo in Finland, which specialises in large scale immersive, site specific and promenade theatre with whom he has been with since 2008. He is also a director and tutor at Drama Studio London since 2016. He has been the recipient of Arts Council founding and other funding bodies for his own productions in the past.
Selected writing & directing Credits. Full CV on request.
2020
Christmas Stories From Around The World
by Ishwar Maharaj
DSL & Local Schools Tour
London
Yöperhonen (Night Butterfly)
by Ishwar Maharaj & Eeva Salonius
Teatteri Vertigo
Apteekkimuseo - Finland
Site Specific / Promenade
2019
The Last Act Of Harry Houdini
by Barry Killerby
Company O Theatre
The Cockpit - London
Back On Track
by Ishwar Maharaj
Graduation Show
Drama Studio London
2018
Leviatan (Levaithan)
by Eeva Salonius
Teatteri Vertigo
Forum Marinum – Finland
Site Specific / Promenade
The Heresy Of Love
by Helen Edmundson
New Diorama Theatre
London
2017
Abandonment
by Kate Atkinson
Camden People's Theatre
London
Orlando
by Ishwar Maharaj & Eeva Salonius
(After Virginia Woolf)
Teatteri Vertigo
VPK Talo - Finland
Immersive / Promenade
2011
Elaävaä Satukirja (The Living Storybook)
Teatteri Vertigo
by The Company
Brinkhall Manor – Finland
Site Specific / Immersive / Promenade
Woyzeck
by Georg Büchner
Adapted by Ishwar Maharaj
Teatteri Vertigo
Brinkhall Manor – Finland
Immersive / Promenade
Hidden Place Pt 2
by Ishwar Maharaj
European Culture Capital Program
Tehdas Teatteri – Finland
2010
Hidden Place
by Ishwar Maharaj
KRIIK Teatterifestivali
Tehdas Teatteri – Finland
2009
Sweet Bird Of Youth
Teatteri Vertigo
by Tennessee Williams
Barker Teatteri – Finland
Annawon’s Song
Company O Theatre
by Beverly Andrews
The Tricycle Theatre - London
Something Sweet
Company O Theatre
by Ishwar Maharaj
Southwark Playhouse – London
2008
Ella Gray
by Ishwar Maharaj
Teatteri Vertigo
Tedhas Teatteri – Finland
Something Sweet
by Ishwar Maharaj
Theatreuno
Le Strade del Teatro – Milan Italy
2007
bOOk Of little things
by Ishwar Maharaj
Company O Theatre
Oval House – London
2006
lady Of sOrrOw
by Ishwar Maharaj
Company O Theatre
The Space – London
nO-bOdy nOse
by Ishwar Maharaj
Theatreuno
The Space - London
Education
2021
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
Drama Studio London
2020
Spring Awakening
by Frank Wedekind
Drama Studio London
2019
Blindsided
by Simon Stephens
Drama Studio London
2017
The Grace Of Mary Traverse
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Drama Studio London
2016
Our Country's Good
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Drama Studio London
Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
Drama Studio London