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{{Infobox person
| name =Prasanna
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|2|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Anavatti]]
| nationality = [[India]]n {{flagicon|India}}
| alma_mater = [[National School of Drama]]
| occupation = Theatre director
| years_active = 1991-present|
}}

'''Prasanna''' (born 10 February 1951), is a major Indian theatre director and playwright from [[Karnataka]]. He is one of the pioneers of modern Kannada theatre.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/31/stories/2007123155250200.htm
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080104195023/http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/31/stories/2007123155250200.htm
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=2008-01-04
|title=An acting activist all the way
|accessdate=2008-12-21
|author=Parul Sharma
|location=Chennai, India
|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]
|date=2007-12-31}}
</ref> He graduated from the [[National School of Drama]] (NSD). He founded Samudaya and gave a creative direction to Kannada theatre in the 1970s with other activists. Prasanna lives in [[Heggodu]] in [[Karnataka]]. He is known for his organisational skills and new ideas and innovations in theatre.<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.deccanherald.com/content/Mar162008/district2008031657711.asp
|title = Introduce theatre edn in govt schools: Prasanna
|website = Deccanherald.com
|accessdate = 2008-12-21
|author = DH News Service
|url-status = dead
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080724122514/http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Mar162008/district2008031657711.asp
|archivedate = 2008-07-24
}}
</ref> He is a [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] Awardee. He has directed plays for [[National School of Drama]] (Repertory Company, NSD), [[Ninasam]], Rangamandal-Bhopal, [[Rangayana]] and worked with many theatre organizations of India.<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.rangayana.org/directors.htm
|title = the pioneers of Modern Kannada Theatre
|website = Rangayana.org
|accessdate = 2008-12-21
|author = Rangayana Mysore
|url-status = dead
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090501200935/http://www.rangayana.org/directors.htm
|archivedate = 2009-05-01
}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Prasanna quit [[Indian Institutes of Technology|IIT]] to pursue his passion in theatre. He was Inspired into theatre by [[B. V. Karanth|B.V. Karanth]], Prasanna joined the [[National School of Drama|National School Drama]] (NSD). During the Emergency, he went back to Karnataka and founded Samudaya, a radical theatre movement for workers and masses. He staged street plays, protest plays and propagated their political thought in villages. For a while he was also a visiting faculty at NSD. For a couple of years, he worked for an independent television company in New Delhi. He gave this up and left the capital. That was a phase when Prasanna was disenchanted with theatre and almost gave up on his passion, a man who created well noted stage productions like [[Tughlaq (play)|Tughlaq]], [[Gandhi]], etc.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/artistic-labour-is-power/article4605839.ece|title=Artistic labour is power|last=Pradeep|first=K.|date=2013-04-13|work=The Hindu|access-date=2017-12-02|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

==Direction==
[[Girish Karnad]]'s [[Tughlaq]], Gandhi, [[Life of Galileo]], Thai (Brecht's [[Mother Courage and Her Children]]), Acharya Tartuf, Lal Ghas Per Neele Ghode (translation -Uday Prakash), Ek Lok Katha, Shakuntalam ([[Abhijñānaśākuntalam]]), Fujiyama, Dangeya Munchina Dinagalu, Kadadida Neeru, Uttar Ram Charit, Cupid's Broken Arrow,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1034137.cms |title=This play gives desi hue to foreign classics |accessdate=2008-12-21 |author=The Times of India |work=The Times Of India |date=2005-02-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050305091122/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1034137.cms |archivedate=5 March 2005 }}</ref> [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Hamlet]]'', Seema Paar(Play on [[Bharatendu Harishchandra]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=87262|title=The Ultimate Frontier-Prasanna's Seema Paar explores the many faces of death|website=Cities.expressindia.com|accessdate=2008-12-21|author=Ankur Kalitaa|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501040800/http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=87262|archivedate=2009-05-01}}</ref> etc.

==Playwright==
He is also a [[Kannada]] playwright, Novelist, and [[poet]]. Some of his dramas are:Uli, Seema Paar, Dangeya Munchina Dinagalu, Ondu Lokada Kathe, Haddu Meerida Haadi, Mahihmapura, Jangamada Badaku.

== Books about acting ==
Indian Method in Acting<ref>{{Cite book|title=Indian method in acting|last=1951-|first=Prasanna|isbn=978-8181970565|location=New Delhi|oclc=829069565|year = 2013}}</ref>

==Work for visual media==

*Docu-film "Gokak" ([[V. K. Gokak]]) for [[Sahitya Akademi]], [[Delhi]]
*Creative Director- Taana -Bana (1991), TV Serial produced by [[Press Trust of India]] (PTI-TV)
*Worked with ITV

==Awards==
*[[B V Karanth]] award, 2007, [[National School of Drama]]
*[[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]], for Direction, 1999–2000

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/35267219.cms National theatre needs to be redined: Prasanna]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090501213138/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main10.asp?filename=hub021905Saffron.asp Essay Saffron curtain ;Tehelka.com]
*[https://archive.today/20130123060743/http://www.financialexpress.com/old/fe_archive_full_story.php?content_id=151657 If people play their part by Priya Kanungo]
*[http://www.mumbaitheatreguide.com/dramas/features/dialogues.asp Theatre At The Grass Roots: K.V. Subbanna In Dialogue With Prasanna And Geeti Sen]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090501181837/http://www.thehindujobs.com/thehindu/fr/2006/03/24/stories/2006032402860300.htm Let the colours be ;The Hindu]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090917174435/http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/10/stories/2007011011900400.htm Centre concedes Prasanna's demand ;The Hindu]

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[[Category:Recipients of the Rajyotsava Award 2004]]

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