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William Shakespeare's

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A gender-bending contemporary vision of a classic comedy takes us into a forest full of magic, mayhem and delicious desire.
Premiere Performance. Royal Opera House, Mumbai November 5th, 2023

Amphibian Productions' debut production, A Midsummer Night's Dream, a delectable  adventure that delighted and surprised audiences!

A Midsummer Night's Dream is the jewel in the Shakespeare comedy crown!!  It's a rowdy, raucous and at times, ridiculous romp through a tangled world of Lovers, Fairies and Fools. 

Amphibian's production turned this age old classic on its head with a gender bending, sexually ambiguous, naughty, fun-fuelled fantasy suitable for all audiences.

Welcome

Amphibian Productions is beyond excited to present this groundbreaking gender-fluid rendition of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

With our dedication to inclusivity, creativity, and social impact, we're poised to deliver an unforgettable theatrical experience that sparks meaningful conversations in a contemporary world of theatre.

We have put together a world class team of Actors, Composers, Designers and Director who made our inaugural production one to remember and we were over the moon to open at Mumbai's Royal Opera House.


We're not just producing a play; we're sparking conversations within the community. Our gender-fluid "A Midsummer Night's Dream" serves as a platform to address crucial issues related to gender, identity, and representation. 

Join us for this magical journey into the heart of Shakespeare's world, reimagined for the modern stage, creating an unforgettable theatrical adventure."

The 'Dream' Cast

The Lovers

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Helenus

Swapnesh Dubey

Swapnesh Dubey has been involved in media for over a decade. He has worked in front of the camera as anchor, behind the camera as producer, and in the classroom as a college lecturer. In 2021 Swapnesh graduated from the Actor's Toolbox acting program. He then traveled to Canada to further his studies in acting at the Vancouver Acting School in 2022. Since then Swapnesh has taken part in multiple plays in Hindi, English, and Marathi. Swapnesh travelled to Australia where he co-founded Fire-Light Australia, a content producer with its eyes on the Indian, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, US, and UK markets. Swapnesh also co-founded Amphibian Productions, which arranges international exchange in content & talent between Australia & India in film, theatre, and documentaries. Swapnesh divides his time between Mumbai and Melbourne.

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Hermia

Priyam Galav

Priyam is an actor & writer who is passionate about dancing, traveling and discovering interesting stories. The world of theater, and bringing the nuances of varied characters to life is what deeply excites her. Her endeavor is to connect with people and their personal lives through entertaining mediums and unique experiences. She is an ambivert in every sense, loves the English language and takes joy in viewing and envisioning herself in creatively designed homes and cottages all the world with maybe a horse or two galloping around.  Priyam first worked with Glenn in the Actor in the Play workshop series.

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Lysanda

Sahir Mehta

Sahir is an actor/ writer/ director with an M.A. Acting from the world renowned, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In the UK, he starred in the highly acclaimed ‘Mad Forest’ and was praised for his ‘sensitive and heartfelt’ portrayal of the lovelorn outsider Ianos; he also featured in the BBC radio drama ‘Hi-Spec’. In India his notable stage credits include Aadyam’s ‘A Few Good Men’, ‘Those were the Days’ (performed at The Royal Opera House), and ‘Anita’. On screen, he had lead roles in independent films 'A Season of Mangoes’, currently doing the festival rounds to much acclaim ; and 'Goodnight Giggles' for which he won Best Actor at the Indo-French Film Festival. More commercially, he’ll be seen in Zoya Akhtars, ‘Archie’s’ film. Sahir has featured in advertisements for companies such as UpGrad, HP Laptops, and is the current face for 4700 BC popcorn. He has also starred in a variety of comedy sketches for Netflix and performs regular improv comedy shows Mumbai.

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Demetrius

Prince Ali Siddiqui

Prince was born in the city of Ramgarh, Jharkhand. He is a professional actor, attending workshops with National School of Drama & the 6 month FTII Pune Screen  Acting  workshop, and also attending workshops with MPSD & BNA, Lucknow. For the past 7 years he has appeared in theatre productions in almost every state of India including Jharkhand, New Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana, Jaipur, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh , Bihar, and Assam. Prince has acted in over 40 Plays with various theatre groups and 12 solo plays across India. In film and cinema he has appeared in the webseries Avrodh season 2 & Jehanabad; both streaming on Sony LIV. He was also seen in the feature film Soorya with Indian Superstar Sunny Deol releasing soon in Theatres. Prince last worked with Glenn in the Creative Development of BENT by Martin Sherman which will be seen in Mumbai and India in 2024

The Fairies

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Titania / Hippolyta

Gillian Pinto

Gillian Pinto is an actor, singer, voice artist, drama facilitator and corporate trainer. She has acted in plays with a host of noteworthy directors like Lillette Dubey, Yashwant Singh, Sunil Shanbag, Trishla Patel, Faezeh Jalali, Hina Siddiqui, Jeff Goldberg and Melly Still. Her debut feature film Nirmal Anand Ki Puppy directed by Sandeep Mohan, has been screened at film festivals in India, Germany and USA and now on YouTube. Gillian is also Co-Founder of Padsquad, a people's movement started to help women from marginalised communities with menstrual health and hygiene products.

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Oberon / Theseus

Gaurav Venkatesh

Gaurav is an actor, writer. He started his acting career right after finishing his schooling in 2002. His first stint was in the Bangalore theatre group 'Rangasiri'. At this time, he also sang bass for the 'Bangalore Youth Choir', giving many performances on the radio, TV and live shows. Since 2007, he has acted in several Kannada TV serials with directors such TN Sitaram, SN Sethuram, Ramji, and Hindi webseries such as Hadh, Dil Hi Toh Hai. He has acted in Rocketry- The Nambi Effect, and is currently shooting for a Tamil movie. His short film with Naseeruddin Shah, 'The Wallet' has won many awards across the country as well. Gaurav holds a black belt in Kyokishin Karate, and has fought in many karate and kickboxing tournaments. He has learnt Hip Hop dancing from HipHop India Dance Co.

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Puck / Philostrate

Zaurav

Zuarav is 32, A burlesque Actor with blurred visions of painted sound. He has appeared in over 11 films and series including Netflix' Kohrra, Rana Naidu and Aranyak. Her has also appeared in plays such as Baaki Itihas, The Wave, Kya Haseen Sitam, and Adhantar. Zauav is an avid visual artist.

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Fairy / Understudy

Anushree Kushwaha

Anushree trained in acting at the Film and Television institute of India, and Adishakti (Pondicherry). She has also trained in martial arts and is a national level swimming champion. Doing theatre since she was 5 with her dad, theatre has always been an integral part of her life. Anushree comes from Allahabad and realised that if she wants to express something it’s only through art. She has worked with Film Directors such as Madhur Bhandarkar , Prosit Roy, Stijit Mukherjee and Roheha Gera to name a few. Working as a professional actor in Bombay since 2018 she has also worked with theatre directors such as Manoj shah, Satchit Puranik, Swaroop Ghosh and Atul Satya Kaushik and has acted in more than 50 stage shows and multiple street plays in Delhi.

The Mechanicals

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Peta Quince

Anussha Shetty

Anussha is an actor and dubbing artist based in Mumbai. She completed her training with The Actor's Toolbox 2021 where she played `Wendla Bergman` in the graduation production of Springs Awakening directed by Glenn Hayden. Recently, Anussha has appeared in 'Chafed' by Speed Play Productions, 'Club Mono' and 'Venus in Fur' for Chakravyu Performing Arts. She was last seen in 'How He Lied To Her Husband' by Piece of Paper Productions performed at Mukti Manch Mela. She is mentored by Glenn Hayden

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Preeti Rao

Having a past life as a Dentist and a current vocation as a mom and also a practicing Psychological Counselor, Preeti is a professionally trained actor from Mumbai, being a past student of Glenn Hayden and Bernard Dafney. Preeti has appeared in several stage productions including Speaking in Tongues for the Tata Literature Live Festival at Prithvi Theatre. Preeti has also performed in Supper Theatres around Mumbai and has appeared in Film and Webseries productions (4MoreShotsPlease & FARZI ). Preeti is also an accomplished Belly Dancer.

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Starveling

Vandana Bhushan

Vandana is a Mumbai based actor, writer and director. She has written the play Love, More or Less'. 'Mann Ki Baat' a play co-written by her was selected and performed at 'Dastak, the Hindi Theatre Festival at Singapore. She has performed across India in several plays such as Refund, Sur Vs Asur, The Sun Set in the East, Story of Space, Gittu Bittu, Pagla Ghoda, Iss Desh ka Yaaron Kya Kehna, The Dark Room 2.0, Untitled, among others

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Flute

Arjun Raj

Arjun is an actor based in mumbai . He has done his Post-Graduation in acting from Drama school Mumbai and has appeared in TV commercial and five short films , for which he won three best actor awards in various International short film festivals . During his college days he has been part of an Urdu/Hindi theatre group. He is recently working with director Glenn Hayden on the Martin Sherman play BENT which will be staged in india next year in 2024. He is also a writer , a sportsperson and a fitness fanatic.

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Snug / Understudy

Abhilash Mudadi

Abhilash is a 24 year old actor with a background in performing arts. Over the years he has been involved in various aspects of creativity ranging from writing to editingand has short film to his credit as a writer-director. He began acting professionally in 2018 with 13 plays to his credit working woth Directors such as.......and since then he has trained in Physical Theatre, Choreopoem, Mime and Singing. In 2022, he appeared in acted in Macbeth playing one of the witches. Abhilash first worked with Glenn in the workshop program The Actor in the Play

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Snout / Egeus

Kabir Juni

Ever since his school days Kabir always dreamt of becoming an actor and voice artist. During his college years, he joined theatre working with theatre groups such as “Sarthak Theatre” and played major roles in plays like Abu Hassan (Badshah), Talwaar (Seth Ji) and Andhayug (Krit Verma). Later, he became an RJ and then took up a job as a Promo Producer in Mumbai. But acting and voicing always remained his dream. While being in job he worked in an award winning short film “MILF” and played character roles in a two feature films He finally gathered the courage to take the big step of quitting his job in sept. 2021 and started working as an actor and voice artist professionally. He has been a part of anime series “Fire Force” many Promos and ad films as a voice actor. In the last two years he has attended various theatre and acting workshops with renowned groups and people such as Aadishakti, Mr. Prsanna, Anmol Vellani, Glenn Hyden (Stanislavski System), Deshik Vansadia And Damini Basu(Eric morris system)

The Creative Team

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Director

Glenn Hayden

Glenn has had a 39+ year professional life in the Performing Arts Industry. An international award-winning and respected arts leader, Glenn graduated from the prestigious WA Academy of Performing Arts / Edith Cowan University (1986). Between 1987 and 1996, Glenn worked primarily as an actor in Film and TV production but mostly in live Theatre. He Directed his first play, ‘Made in Spain’ by Tony Grounds, for the Melb International Comedy Festival in 1993 and iIn ’96, Glenn performed for the last time as an actor to focus his career on Directing. To date, Glenn has directed over 60 professional projects and productions, commissioned 20+ theatre plays, established several arts organisations including the renowned Blue Room Theatre in Perth WA, and was Artistic Director on 3 major community arts festivals. He was Associate Artist with some of Australia’s most innovative companies including Melbourne Workers Theatre and Deckchair Theatre. Between 2004 and 2014, he was Artistic Director and later, AD / CEO of Adelaide’s Urban Myth Theatre Company which instigated his first visit to India, taking his hit production of A Pirates Ship to the Thespo Theatre Festival at the Prithvi Theatre. Since 2014, Glenn has been travelling to India regularly to teach and make theatre and to facilitate Corporate Theatre Training. He has directed many professional English speaking productions in India including three Australian texts; Andrew Bovel’s Speaking in Tongues for the TATA International Literature Festival Matt Cameron’s Ruby Moon and Sheila Duncan’s A Solitary Choice with Ramneeka Dillhon Lobo. He has also developed and delivered a wide range of training programs for actors and directors including The Actor’s Toolbox, an annual 4 months training program in Mumbai. Glenn is a staunch advocate of the performing arts and has sat on many boards and committees for the development and betterment of the industry. He served as Actors Rep for WA Actors Equity (MEAA), co-developed mentorship programs with Country Arts WA, an organisation he panelled several funding boards with and was interim CEO, sat on funding panels for SA Arts and the Australia Council for the Arts, had a voice on steering and management committees across Australia, and with Linda Martin, spear-headed the establishment of minimum wages and fees for the comedy/cabaret sector in WA. In 2021, he co-wrote the live performer’s guidelines for the Intimacy Collective, India.

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Music

Omkar Patil

Omkar Patil is a Singer-Songwriter Music Composer-Producer VO Artist, Vocal Coach, Actor & a Performer. He holds 'Sangeet Vishaarad' in Hindustani Classical Vocal Music & a Diploma specialized in Naatysangeet form. Kick started composing & Performing English and Hindi originals with his peti (Harmonium) with variety of musical genres fused with a Psycho addictive dramatic singing style of storytelling with his project Harmo'NO'nium. Two of his short films for which he has composed Music for has won National award & also been archived in National film archives of India (NFAI) He was the Singing Voice dubbed in Hindi for character Felix for Grammy award Winning Disney film 'Encanto' associated with the song 'We don't talk about Bruno' which topped the Billboard Top 100. Recently playing Romeo in the hindi musical Raunaq & Jassi, inspired by Classic Romeo & Juliet directed by Feroz Abbas Khan.

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Costumes

Ishi Srivastava

Ishi Srivastava is a master trainer at Atlas Skilltech University in Mumbai. She is a costume designer, artist & stylist based in Mumbai. She is running her own clothing line ‘worldofishi’ & has been doing research as well as costumes for theatre, ad films & music videos. Her styling work has been featured in multiple magazines such as Mob Journal, Lucy’s, Mordant, Women’s Era, Malvie and Clichémag. Her research titled ‘The surviving Sari’ has been published by Lambert publishing & has been presented at the Global Fashion Conference. Her collaborative mixed media art series has been exhibited at the Florence Bienalle and she aspires to drive change  through  art. Most recently, Ishi's costumes appeared in Much Ado About Nothing Directed by J Brandon Hill

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Lighting and Production

Saajan Kataria

Saajan is an actor and writer and production designer working on both stage and screen. He studied Performing Arts in his graduation before having a post-graduation degree in Filmmaking. Saajan began his adventure in 2011 in Punjab. While residing in Delhi and Mumbai, he had the opportunity to work with some of India's leading theatrical figures including Bapi Bose, C R Jambe, Asif Ali Haider, Joy Meisnam Metei, Parimal Mistry, and Yogesh Gambhir. He has taken part in multiple theatre festivals around India, as well as workshops exploring various theatre forms and performing styles. He has been a part of many Theatrical productions and has performed in places around India. He has also been the production manager and light designer for Theatre plays. Theatre productions of "The Caretaker" by Harold Pinter and "Endgame" by Samuel Beckett are among his most recent works. In addition, he has worked in independent feature sand recently he has completed shooting for a Kannada feature film.

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Stage Manager

Nikhil Agrawal

Nikhil has over a decade of experience in Theatre, Film Making, and Arts Coordination. A media graduate of Mumbai University, he holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Acting & Theatre from HCRFTR, Himachal Pradesh. He has been working with Chakravyu Performing Arts for the past three years across the company’s youth and professional theatre arms as Assistant Artistic Director. He has been a part of 32+ plays and has been involved in all aspects of theatre-making from writing, music, design, and acting to direction. He has written, directed, acted, and edited 15+ Short Films. Nikhil worked as an actor for television and OTT with prominent production houses such as Pocket Aces, Dashmi Creations, among others. He worked as a copywriter and video editor with SA Digital Films. Nikhil believes films, theatre, and the arts can change lives.

Costume Department

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About Amphibian

At Amphibian Productions, inclusivity is our guiding principle.  Our mission is to create theatre that reflects the diverse world we live in, dismantling norms and celebrating the beauty of all our identities through world class story telling.
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Swapnesh Dubey
Co-Founder / Managing Director
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Vishal Wagh
Co-Founder / Director
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Jamie Miller
Fire-Light Australia Managing Director
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