Vikram Iyengar is an arts leader and connector based in Calcutta, India and working internationally. A dancer-choreographer, arts writer, and curator-presenter, he heads the performance company Ranan and the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation. His scope of work spans practice, discourse, critique and management, and revolves around the central tenet of creating deep connections with and through the arts. An ARThink South Asia Arts Management Fellow, Global Fellow of the International Society for the Performing Arts, and alumnus of the Australian International Arts Leaders programme, Vikram was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Government of India for his work in contemporary dance in 2015.
Dana Roy works with theatre in schools. She teaches drama and music at Mahadevi Birla World Academy. Actor, singer, physical performer, production person, she has worked with several theatre companies. She was in the first batch of Strategic Management in the Art of Theatre programme (SMART) by the India Theatre Forum and IFA. In ASSITEJ International Theatre for Children and Young People programme for artists she is a Next Generation alumna. She is the production manager for most Pickle Factory events, and has watched the Pickle Factory idea grow since it was a glint in Vikram’s eye.