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About Quasar Thakore-Padamsee
- Quasar Thakore Padamsee (born 20 August 1978) is an Indian stage actor turned theatre director.
- Both his parents, Alyque Padamsee and Dolly Thakore, are renowned stage actors.
- His mother was a casting director for the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi in 1982.
- His father played the role of Jinnah in the same movie. He studied English Literature at St.
- Xavier's College in Mumbai.
- Though he started his career following his father, as an adman, he soon switched full-time theatre by starting Mumbai based theatre company called QTP, with partners Arghya Lahiri, Christopher Samuel, Nadir Khan, Toral Shah and Vivek Rao. He played cricket for Singapore U-19 team that won the inaugural Tuanku Jaafar Cup.
- He was an effective left arm medium pacer. Since 1999, he has directed and produced over 20 plays with theatre company, QTP.
- He also works as a stage manager and lighting designer for the theatre productions.
- He was also the Assistant Director of Tim Supple's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Plays directed by Quasar Thakore Padamsee include The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Minorities All My Sons The Urban Burden A View From The Stage Acid Kindertansport Acid Khatijabai of Karmali Terrace Project S.t.r.i.p. A Peasant of El Salvador Mother Courage and her Children Every Brilliant ThingIn 2013, he directed "So Many Socks" which was nominated for the META Awards.
- The play, written by Annie Zaidi, is inspired from a book of poems, Kora, written by Tibetan author-activist Tenzin Tsundue, which highlights the problems of Tibetans in exile.
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