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After delivering an extremely successful National level college theatre festival of Shri Ram College of Commerce, Histrionica 2012, the largest of its kind in the Delhi University; with a foot fall of 7000 theatre enthusiasts and awards worth Rupees 75000; three of it’s organizers are back and outside the bounds of college administration, with a novel cuisine on their platter.

Turntable Productions is an initiative by Shoury Gupta, Prateek Handa and Medha Bankhwal to bring commercial worth to theatre as performing arts and incorporate it as a form of entertainment, interaction, a professional career option and learning in the schedules of lacs of Delhi residents who resort to the weathered and well trodden roads to seek the same. Turntable Productions brings together students approaching expertise in finance, public relations, marketing and promotions, graphic and sets, props and costumes design, content writing, acting, directing, photography, videography and event management from some of the most reputed schools and colleges across the national capital. Below is a brief introduction to the three founders.

Shoury Gupta has been an essential part of four major stage productions over the past two years, namely The Inheritence of Jhunjhunwaala, The Experiment, Stop Look Bang and Three Blind Mice, which have received accolades and prominence at The ACT Festival (at Kamani Auditorium), Old World Theatre Festival(at the Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre), The Little Theatre Group (LTG) Auditorium, National School of Drama and various other festivals and competitions. He directed a ten minute play for the Short+Sweet Theatre festival(World’s largest ten minute theatre competiton), Delhi held at Azad Bhavan, Indian Council for Cultural Relations organized by The Australian High Commission. He was the festival organizer for Histrionica 2012.

Prateek Handa was a critically acclaimed actor in three college theatre productions, namely Samar, Three Blind Mice and The Inheritence of Jhunjhunwaala. “Samar”, as a play travelled across the country to the likes of BITS Pilani and IIM, Ahmedabad. He held the position of Executive Officer, Histrionica 2012.

Medha Bankhwal was an actor in the self-scripted, self –directed play The Experiment. She was the writer and director of an original script titled Studio Ruins. She partnered with The Eggs for Breakfast and Humour Me productions which created The Character of a Happy Life which was a high budget commercial play performed at Alliance Française and LTG Auditorium. She was an actor in two ten minute plays called Number 22 and The month of July as a part of the Short+Sweet Theatre festival performed at Epicentre, Gurgaon, Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre and Azad Bhavan, Indian Council for Cultural Relations. She held the post of General Secretary, for Histrionica 2012.