Dushyanth Gunashekar is a Chennai based director, writer, actor and dramaturge. He is the founder and creative head of Crea-Shakthi – his dream project of creating a city based theatre repertory and education organisation for performing arts with schools and universities as their primary focus. The idea was to provide extensive training through international residencies and collaborating with stalwarts across the board, be it academics, folk art, martial arts, directors, designers, etc.