Deepan Sivaraman is a Delhi-based theatre director, set designer, playwright and educator.
He is the Artistic Director and founder of Oxygen Theatre Company, which creates some of the most innovative productions in Indian.
He received an MA in Scenic Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art in 2004 and taught theatre design and performance production for five years at various colleges at the University of the Arts London. He is currently Dean and Associate Professor at the School of Culture and Creative Expression, Ambedkar University, Delhi.
In the last 20 years of his theatre career, he has created over 70 theatre productions for various companies and academic institutions in India and Europe. His work has been presented at theatre festivals around the world including Avignon, Alameda, Edinburgh, Prithvi, ITFOC, META and Bharat Rang Mahotsav.
He was awarded the Charles Wallace Foundation Fellowship in India in 2003, the Kerala Academy Sangit Natak Award for Theatre Direction in 2012 and the Mahindra Excellence National Theatre Award in 2010 for Best Direction, Set Design and Choreography in the play Spinal Cord.
Deepan Sршivaraman's work represented Indian scenography at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance and Space Design in 2011, and his work has been named one of the finest masters of this century's current century in the book The Twentieth Century Performance-History edited by Noel Witts and Theresa Brayshaw.
