Who is Ramesh?
Ramesh Meyyappan (from Singapore) graduated from Liverpool Institute For
Performing Arts with a first class honours degree. Since graduating he
has produced and performed in a number of solo touring performances; Mistero
Buffo, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart & The Masque of
the Red Death, This Side Up (in collaboration with Spike Theatre).
As a deaf performer Ramesh has developed his work using a range of visual and physical styles, ensuring accessibility to both deaf and hearing audiences. Much of his work has been toured nationally and internationally.
He was nominated for Singapore’s Life! Theatre Awards (Leading Actor),
in 2003 and again in 2006 for his solo performances in ‘Mistero
Buffo’
and ‘This Side Up’.
As a director Ramesh has worked on a wide range of projects, directorial highlights have included visual adaptations of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ and Poe’s ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’. For many years he worked in community arts and arts education in Singapore and in the UK, working in partnerships to develop unique and inclusive projects.
Ramesh also teaches aspects of visual & physical theatre and has had
experience teaching groups with different levels of skills and abilities.
He has facilitated skills workshops for a wide range of diverse groups
from Europe, America and Asia Pacific.
