Anurupa Roy is a puppeteer, puppet designer and director of the puppet theater. She views puppetry as “an amalgam of plastic and performing arts where sculptures, masks, figures, materials, found objects and narratives come together with music and movement to create a space where humans and puppets are co-actors. She started at her group Katkatha in 1998 which was registered as the Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust in 2006. She has directed over 15 shows for children and adults ranging from the Ramayana and Mahabharata to Shakespearean comedies to the Humayun-nama.

The puppets used by the group range from 3 inches to forty feet. The shows have toured across Europe,Japan and South Asia. A major aspect of her work is using puppets for psycho social interventions in conflicted areas such as Kashmir, Sri Lanka and Manipur. She has worked with youth and women across the country using puppets to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and gender issues.

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