Vidhu Singh
Expressive Arts Facilitator. Dramaturg. Director.
Vidhu Singh is an Expressive Arts Facilitator, a Social Emotional Arts Facilitator, and a SoulPages® Facilitator, who is training in NarrARTive Expressive Arts Coaching. She serves as a Faculty member for the Expressive Arts Training Program at NWCEAI. The Expressive Arts field showed up in Vidhu’s life as an unexpected gift of the pandemic. She is devoted to poetry, expressive writing and visual journaling practices that nurture discovery, creativity, personal and collective wisdom. As a theater artist, Vidhu’s fluency in a variety of cultural and aesthetic forms, her dramaturgy, her scholarship and advocacy for South Asian theater have made her contribution to the American theater unique. Cal Shakes recognized this uniqueness by honoring Vidhu with the 2020 Luminary Award in dramaturgy. She holds a Masters degree in Dramatic Art from UC Santa Barbara and a doctorate in Asian Theatre from UH Manoa. Her doctoral work provides a vital contextual foundation to regional experimental theater in India. A graduate of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab, Vidhu is a core member of Theatre without Borders; a founding member of World Wide Lab; the founder and artistic director of RasaNova Theater; an advisory committee member with DNAWORKS; an ensemble member with Aviva Arts and a resident artist at Brava Theater.