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Farley Richmond new article content ... Farley Richmond (b. 1938, in Carter, Oklahoma, USA) is a leading scholar of world theater, especially of kathakali and kutiyattam, forms of classical Sanskrit (Indian) theater. Kutiyattam is "one of the oldest continuously performed theatre forms in India, and it may well be the oldest surviving art form of the ancient world", originating at least 1000 years ago.

In 1965, along with Andrew T. Tsubaki and James Rodger Brandon, Richmond founded the Afro-Asian Theater Project, which after a series of reorganizations has been known since 1987 as the Association for Asian Performance.

Among the many students he has mentored includes Hindi-language actor Vinay Pathak; during Richmond's tenure at Stony Brook University, he encouraged Pathak to return to India and Hindi-language theater and film, in 1995.