User:Suvadip guha

Vocalist (Solo, Arshi Nagar folk-rock band, ex-band- Camouflage, Chakrabuha) Lyricist, Composer, Singer and Music Director of ALTERNATIVE LIVING THEATRE.

Conducts workshop on”Basic Training for Performers”, “New approaches towards Theatre” & Role of Music & Ambiance in Theatre WEST BENGAL, INDIA, PAKISTAN,BANGLADESH AND NEPAL.

With a background of artistic and cultural atmosphere, as his father (Mr. Probir Guha) is the director of the internationally famous group Alternative Living Theatre. He started his acting career when he was only 3 and ½ years of age. The first role to play was of a little girl in the famous A.L.T. production AHALYA. And have performed over 1400 shows with his group. In 1997, he took a break, because a feeling was growing up within him that perhaps acting was not his actual field of work. It was till the year 2000, when he read, learnt, saw, heard and researched on THEATRE MUSIC and the power of MUSIC in Social Theatre, and it’s importance in Conflict resolution. Music was the most comfortable zone for him from his childhood days.

From then, he has performed over 700 shows as a Musician and Music Director and had composed music for different Theatre groups like THEATRE WORKSHOP, NATYA PRITANA, EBONG AMRA, MANABIK, THEATRE PLATFORM, NATYAMUKH and several other groups including his mother group ALTERNATIVE LIVING THEATRE. He is also working as a Television Anchor and Music Composer for three Bengali television channels. Along with, he has also composed music for some Documentary Films on the ADIVASIS in BENGAL and one upon MOTHER TERESSA.

Including to his curriculum comes the several workshops that he has conducted upon the role of Music in Theatre with various groups in WEST BENGAL, INDIA, BANGLADESH AND NEPAL.

For more than two years he is researching upon the use of EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC in Theatre, along with its role and importance in penetrating the mind and brains of the spectators. The main focus of his work is how to heighten music to the level where it becomes a lead character itself and not only a background element.