Our Team
Kumar Ale
Managing Director/Founder
He is a photographer. He started photography when he was 13. He has seen black and white era transforming to colour pictures, reel development and colour lab into digital photography. Till 2050 photography was a business for him as he was doing professional photography in his colour lab.After that he started his freelancing career and he started to click art and literature based photography because he thought artists, poets, writers, are the property of the nation.
Yubaraj Ghimire
Founder/Artistic Director
Also a columnist, a playwright and an author. He is a graduate of Commedia Theatre School, Copenhagen, Denmark where he undertook a two-year intensive theatre course. He specializes in physical theatre and has practiced commedia dellerte, storytelling and ‘theatre of the oppressed’ method extensively. Yubaraj has directed many proscenium plays, outdoor performances and conducted several theatre workshops. He has successfully managed and led various ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ projects across the country. He has also conducted several theatre workshops in Nepal and in abroad, and has travelled the length and breadth of the country, conducting theatre workshops and supporting in formation of local theatre groups. At present, he is the main coach of three-month intensive theatre course ‘Let Your Body Think’ organized by Shilpee Theatre. Yubaraj believes that ‘activism through art’ can have a deep impact on our society and help transform the society.
Mohan Prakash
Publication Head
Mr. Mohan Prakash is working as the publication head and the accountant from December 2018. He has persuaded his master’s degree in Geography and B.A – B.Ed in Nepali Literature. He has experience working as a teacher before joining Shilpee Theatre. He is also an actor who has worked in a few plays at Shilpee. He likes to travel and read the books in his free time. He has written many critical articles about theatre.
Pabitra Khadka
Resident Artist
Ms. Pabitra Khadka is a resident artist at Shilpee Theatre. She is also a dancer and a trainer. She has a bachelor’s degree in Classical Dance. She has also taken many formal and informal trainings on storytelling and acting. She joined Shilpee in 2015. Since then, she has performed in more than 15 plays, in a few movies, short movies and television shows.
