Vinay heads Sutradhar Casting House and the Theatre group Sutradhar.
He is an Actor, Director, Voice-lender, Dubbing artiste, Script-writer, Translator, Casting Director, a Trainer of actors, voice & body language based soft skills and a Corporate Trainer.
He is an M.A. (Sociology), M.A. (Hindi Literature) and was a Bank Officer with a Nationalised Bank before quitting and nurturing Sutradhar. He is fluent in speaking, reading and writing Hindi, English, Urdu, Telugu and Marathi (speaking and reading only).
He started out as an amateur theatre practitioner and is now a theater personality of national repute. He considers Prof. Bhaskar Shewalkar his guru. He has been passionately involved with theatre for more than thirty years. His theatrical career has seen him directing about 20 plays, acting in over 150 performances through 40 plays, conducting acting workshops since 1999 and voice workshops since 2003. He has trained more than 75 actors over 20 long-term and short-term workshops and through personalized training.
He has acted in Hindi and Telugu films and a Hollywood film, written scripts for documentaries, corporate and other films and regularly lends his voice for feature films, ad-films, Corporate films, documentaries in Hindi, Urdu and English. He is well-known for playing many national and local TV characters. One of his scripts for the National Dairy Development Board promotional film ‘Piyo Glass Full Doodh’ gives an insight to the journey of milk from the cow to the household.
His work also includes using theatre as a medium for education and rehabilitation. He is a visiting faculty in many media studies schools/programs. He has also trained corporates on Voice, Body Language and Communication through workshops culminating in productions. He was chosen as one of Hyderabad’s 22 icons by Hyderabad’s oldest and best known monthly magazine CHANNEL 6 on its 22nd Anniversary in August 2012 alongside icons like Chandrababu Naidu, D. Rama Naidu, Jagdish Mittal and Dr. P.M.Bhargava.
He was invited by the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi to perform at the World Hindi Day celebrations in January 2013.
He can be reached on www.facebook.com/sutradharactors.
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