Photo by Stephanie Girard
The funniest lines of the show are awarded to Touchstone (Ajinkya Desai), the exiled court jester or fool. Desai, another reason to see the production, is a UCSD alumna who majored in engineering and plays Touchstone with exaggeration and exuberance. -UCSD Guardian, As You Like It, USD/Old Globe
Namaste. Meet Ajinkya!
He graduated with an MFA from The Old Globe/ University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theater Program.
Before that: Master of Science, Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego
AND Before that: B.Tech., Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur
He is fluent in three languages
English, Hindi, Marathi (vernacular Mumbai).
and is learning German too!
object movement festival
May 2018
"Untold stories From the War with the Newts"
Inspired by a classic Karel Capek's Czech science fiction novel, the show recounts an alternate history of the 1930s:
the western world discovers, exploits, educates, arms, and is ultimately overthrown by a species of highly intelligent newt!
Featuring five actor/puppeteers and two musicians, it brings together live music, high drama, expert slapstick and Czech puppets!
SHORT FILM
February 2018
"Firefly"
Sea Breeze Film Festival, 2018
Director: Richard Wollner
A hacker, UMESH, finds himself in a situation that does not look beneficial to him or his family life!
Theatrical Reel
SOLO OnE-ACT in
'AMERICAN IDOL for playwrights'
The Doctor (Ph.D.) in Spite of Himself
East Coast premiere
31st season of the Audelco-winning Riant Theatre’s Strawberry One-Act Festival
A Pakistani doctoral student, SULAIMAN, is frustrated with the academia, reluctant to join the engineering industry and instead, wants to pursue a more artistic career in the U.S.A. A sudden turn of events forces him into a dilemma. His choices, nevertheless, are so stymied by and susceptible to his circumstances, that despite his delightful enthusiasm to make a giant leap, we find ourselves praying for him!
Photo by: Jim Cox
"Because of the traveling nature of this show, it is scaled back in terms of props and sets, but not in talent as this group of players brings the humor with them at the same level as if they were walking the stage in Balboa Park. "
- E.H. Reiter, BWW Review, Nov. 12th 2017
NEXT UP:
URBAN WAVES
SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL
Friday, June 29: 7:30pm
Saturday, June 30: 2pm
Sunday, July 1: 4pm
Short Plays from Metropolitan Operas
"Pintauro was the playwright of such works as Snow Orchid, seen Off-Broadway and in London, as well as Men’s Lives, which inaugurated Bay Street Theater."
-OLIVIA CLEMENT, playbill.com
Rosen's Son
Charlie's Farewell
Parekeet Eulogy
Birds In The Church
Soft Dude
Rex
Bus Stop Diner
Two Eclair
Uncle Chick
Tickets: