Soumyak Kanti DeBiswas

Kanti co-founded Tin Can - a theatre company based in Calcutta. His work as playwright and director has been supported by British Council, National Theatre Studio, Seagull Foundation for the Arts, National Theatre Scotland, The Yard Theatre, The Courtyard Theatre and Theatre Royal Plymouth. Awarded Best Director at Thespo X Mumbai in 2008, he acted in two feature films in India: Tasher Desh (dir: Q/2012) and Madly Bangali (dir: Anjan Dutt/2010). In 2012 Kanti graduated from the Royal College of Art London as Inlaks scholar and subsequently founded a nightclub at The Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick. The theatre was awarded the 2013 Empty Space Peter Brook/Mobius Award and the 2014 Off West End Awards. In 2016 Kanti returned to India to write and produce a first feature - Cat Sticks (MUBI), awarded Jury Honourable Mention at Slamdance Festival 2019.