Iskandar Sharazuddin

Biography

Iskandar إسكندر R. Sharazuddin is a British-Bruneian theatre-maker, movement practitioner, and educator. He is a former Australian international gymnast and previous member of the national squad. His movement practice exists at the intersection of acrobatics and gesture. He is a qualified Level 3 Men's Artistic Gymnastics (MAG) coach and Level 2 Women's Artistic Gymnastics  (WAG) accredited by Gymnastics Australia and British Gymnastics. He works across forms and styles in his movement practice to develop a gestural and narrative rich vocabulary. 

Iskandar works as a movement specialist and puppeteer collaborating with organisations such as Puppets with GUTS, the BBC Proms, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and in large scale outdoor participatory projects. He has worked with and for English National Opera, Improbable, and the National Theatre as a movement director and puppeteer. He is the current Joint Artistic Director of Ellandar Productions focusing on theatre about a British East and Southeast Asian lived experience, female-led narratives, and diverse British Muslim narratives. He is a previous recipient of the Soho Theatre Tony Craze Playwriting Award and works as a freelance playwright-dramaturg.

As a writer-dramaturg selected credits include: Post-Mortem (Assembly Festival, Edinburgh Fringe & Touring), (un)written • (un)heard (Fringe World Festival Western Australia, Winner: International Dance & Physical Theatre Award), Silently Hoping (VAULT Festival & Applecart Arts), The Life of Cardboard: Film (Barbican Cinema - Framed Film Festival 2013, Future Shorts, and Western Australian Screen Awards Design Nominee), and The Life of Cardboard: Play (Winner: Tony Craze Playwriting Award, Longlisted Bruntwood Playwriting Award).

Iskandar is a project manager for community work at Headlong Theatre and an actor-writer.