Syed Jamil Ahmed

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Syed Jamil Ahmed (b. 1955) is a director based in Bangladesh and Professor at the Department of Theatre and Music, University of Dhaka. He graduated from the National School of Drama (New Delhi, India) in 1978, obtained his MA in Theatre Studies from the University of Warwick (UK) in 1989 and his PhD (on “Indigenous Theatrical Performances in Bangladesh: Its History and Practices”) from the University of Dhaka in 1997. He founded the Department of Theatre and Music at the University of Dhaka in 1994 and served as its Chair till 1997. He has taught at the Antioch College, USA (1990), King Alfred’s University, UK (2002) and San Francisco City College, USA (2005). He has also given numerous workshops on theatre in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Germany. He has over 50 research articles to his credit, some of which have been published in TDR: The Drama Review, New Theatre Quarterly, Asian Theatre Journal, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Research in Drama Education. His full-length publications in English are Acinpākhi Infinity: Indigenous Theatre in Bangladesh, In Praise of Niranjan: Islam, Theatre, and Bangladesh and Against Orientalist Grain: Performance and Politics Entwined with a Buddhist Strain. Syed Jamil Ahmed’s performance credits include direction of over 20 plays including The Wheel by Selim al-Deen (English translation of Chaka, jointly directed with Denny Partridge) at the Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA in 1990; an adaptation of Bisad Sindhu (a

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