Asma Mundrawala
Karachi, Pakistan
Asma Mundrawala is a visual artist and theatre practitioner with a DPhil degree from the University of Sussex UK. She is a Professor in the Department of Fine Art at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi. She has been associated with the arts and education and has been represented in national and international exhibitions. As part of her research practice Asma has published in Pakistani and international books and journals. Apart from a visual arts practice, Asma has a background in theatre since 1997 when she began work with the Karachi-based theatre group Tehrik e Niswan. She is the co-founder and creative director for Zambeel Dramatic Readings (2011), a group that renders Urdu texts in dramatic form for live audiences. As part of this initiative she has conceptualised and directed several projects comprising of texts by eminent authors from the subcontinent. She has initiated and runs Zambeelnaama, a monthly online audio channel for Zambeel Dramatic Readings. Asma lives and works in Karachi.