Artistic Director: Krishna Zivraj-Nair

Krishna is a Bharatanatyam artist, teacher, performer, and choreographer. She runs the award-winning dance school Sanskruti Cambridge, which is now 15 years old. Krishna received the Nritya Ratna Award from India for her contribution to the arts. Krishna’s work has been endorsed by Akademi’s UTKARSH award, One Dance Teaching Mentoring programme, given to those identified as future leaders and ISTD Bursary Award in recognition for her teaching skills. She was also selected as an artist for Mercury Creatives Artist Development Programme. Krishna’s artistic vision is to create dance theatre for children and families that is rooted in south-Asian heritage but at the same time be relevant to British society, which consists of diverse ethnicities. Her role behind the scenes, includes producing, developing audiences, and establishing collaborations with partners and stakeholders.

Director: Amit Nair

Amit is Cambridge-based business consultant and helps start-up companies commercialise their innovations. Some of his work involves helping companies raise funds through government schemes for research and development projects. Using this experience and as one of the founding directors of Sanskruti, Amit has helped the organisation in its grant applications, budgeting, and financial projects. He also provides business advice to Krishna as she develops Sanskruti further and will continue to manage the company finances

Board Member: Tomorr Kokona:

Tomorr is a London-based performing arts business consultant, coach, and mentor with a background as an international arts practitioner specialising in theatre, movement and choreography spanning over three decades. Tomorr use this wealth of experience, a wide array of skills and his academic studies to help individuals and businesses prosper with his firm Tomorr Kokona Creative Leadership Consulting (https://tomorrkokona.com/). Tomorr mentored Krishna as a Mercury Creative and helped her channel her vision for SA performing arts by creating Sanskruti Cambridge CIC and continues to guide her as a Board Member of the CIC.

Board Member: Chris Fogg:

Chris was Creative Producer for South East Dance from 2009-2013 and was the Creative Producer for the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund from 2011-2017, since when he has been working freelance as a writer, producer, theatre director, arts consultant, and dramaturg for choreographers and dance companies. Prior to joining South East Dance Chris was Director of Dance & Theatre for Take Art, the rural arts development agency for Somerset, and before that Artistic Director of Beaford Arts in Devon, whom he joined after being Associate Director of New Perpsectives Theatre Company in Nottinghamshire. Chris is the dramaturg for Magical Honey and mentors Krishna on rural touring.

Board Member: Meera Vinay

Meera is a freelance creative arts leader with more than 15 years of experience in business strategy, operations & planning. Meera launched IndianRaga, an award winning art-based start up in the UK, ramping up operations from a single-woman team to include more than 200 amateur artists & professionals in a span of three years. She has since launched the first global IndianRaga Festival and has successfully raised funds with Arts Council England, DCMS & private investors.
Meera works independently as a performing producer undertaking assignments for emerging and established artists as well as arts organisations focussing on SA art forms. Some of her latest projects include, ‘Plastic Drastic Fantastic’ with Akademi, ‘ Tale of Tawaifs’ with Kalakar Arts and ‘Polyrhythms’ with Prathap Ramachandra. She is currently working with Bhavan UK, a NPO in their fundraising initiatives. She is the founder member of Hertfordshire Dance Consortium which aims at increasing participation in dance & movement activities in the county.

Script writer: Ayesha Nair

Ayesha Nair is an award-winning Indian screenwriter and playwright. She has been a writer for over 10 years writing for print, TV, digital and stage.

Ayesha has worked in children’s theatre, performing in Indian plays like Once Upon A… Tiger, The Kachra Tales and Wolf. She has also collaborated with educational institutions to conduct workshops and direct their annual theatre shows. Ayesha has also scripted plays for young audiences.

For older audiences, she has also written the play Third Time’s the Harm which won the Shyamanand Jalan National Youth Theatre Award. Her play Butterflies on Bricks had rehearsed readings at the Mercury Theatre, England and Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai by Rage Theatre.

Ayesha has a long-term collaboration with Sanskruti writing scripts for the award-winning shows Apple ‘N’ Spice and Magical Honey.

Assistant Producer: Roshni Parmar

Roshni Parmar a recent graduate from Rose Bruford College in Stage and Events Management has previously worked alongside an immersive dance show Mumbai Masala as a Stage Manager in 2022 and also worked and been an active member as an Events Assistant for an events company Bombay Funkadelic. She is also currently working on a project Let’s Dance International Frontiers as a Stage Manager for an annual international dance festival in Leicester for International Dance Day.  Showcasing high quality dance that celebrates diversity and intersectional identities. Other roles include working on different projects Assistant Stage Manager, Production Manager.