Irawati Karnik, whose work in English, Hindi and Marathi films has won several awards, including the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar and the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards, has been associated with Drama School Mumbai, the brainchild of theatre practitioner Jehan Manekshaw, for some years. She has worked with it off and on and helped set up a dramaturgy department. Though theatre, as a field, has always been relatively more inclusive, Karnik hopes she can steer fundamental change in the industry. “I see so many women making work over the last 10 years. But they still get slotted as female writers and directors and not simply writers and directors. We have all fallen into a pattern of looking at work made by men as more important,” she says.
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