Charmy Kaur

Ramanjit Kaur graduated in Dance and Music and did a masters degree in Music at the Punjab University in Chandigarh. She has been a professional actor for over 20 years but her journey in theatre began as a child - specifically the day she was selected as a delegate for the International Children’s Theatre Festival in Chandigarh.

In 1986 at the age of fifteen, she began working professionally with Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry’s ‘The Company,’ and trained under her as an actress. Chowdhry’s ‘The Company’ consists of traditional musicians, female impersonators and urban actors, trained by Chowdhry, B.V. Karanth (Music) and Surjit Patar (Writer, Poet and Translator). Ramanjit is still influenced by her years in ‘The Company’ and continues to work with them, often in the role of lead actress. She has toured with several of their theatre productions including Naga Mandala (which inspired Deepa Mehta’s Heaven on Earth); Yerma, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Phaedra, Kitchen Katha, An Unposted Love Letter, Sibo in Supermarket and The Suit.

As a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Award (UK) Ramanjit was able to tra Arts, and the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama. She has also worked with the Improbable Theatre and the Firenza Guidi in Italy. She has received several awards for her work in theatre including the Sanskriti Award for Theatre (2006) and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Bismillah Khan Yuva Purskar for Theatre (2006).

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