Sameera Iyengar and Sanjna Kapoor, directors of theatre company, Junoon, have now founded SMART (Strategic Management in the Art of Theatre), which has been conceptualised by India Theatre Forum. The 10-day residential course followed by a six-month mentorship programme hopes to give the managerial aspect of theatre a major shot in the arm.

All the facilitators of the SMART workshop

“In the 1990s, when I began working at Prithvi Theatre, OP Jain of Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi was dreaming of setting up a performing arts management-training programme at one of the IIMs.