http://www.nikhilmehta.co.in/work-forte daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1433939986683-KOAUJNH6YUZ6NOP4718A/IMG_5142.jpg Productions Karkhana - R.W. Fassbinder’s Katzelmacher Set in 1972, or perhaps the present, Karkhana traces the lives of employees in an office as they attempt to break out of their mundane routines with raging affairs (real and make believe), disco mob dances, violent confrontations, high octane gossip sessions and karaoke breaks. Featuring Vardaan Arora, Farhad Colabavala, Mallika Dua, Nitya Kukreja, Vidushi Mehra, Madhav Mehta, Luke Noble, Mehek Panjabi, Kriti Pant, Sudheer Rikhari, Rahul Tewari. Lighting design by Deepa Dharmadhikari. Lighting assistant and operation by Gopal Verma. Scenic and Costume Design by Portia Elmer. Dramaturgy by Promona Sengupta and Amanda Culp. Stage managed by Tanya Malik. Production Managed by Mukesh Gupta. Publicity stills by Manu Sharma. Sound Operated by Anuja Singh. Graphics by Soumya Parker. Photography by Nayantara Parikh. Black Box Okhla, New Delhi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1510403632842-FZEWELZVWF8GH8R8234C/1+TSP.jpg Productions The Shakuntala Project by Nikhil Mehta Night after night, confined within the four walls of an apartment, a Man and Woman re-live Kalidasa’s Shakuntala. Uprooting their existence as they frantically strive for something better, something different – do they succeed? Featuring Sharvari Deshpande and Prashant Prakash. Lighting Design by Deepa Dharmadhikari. Scenic Design by Brittany Vasta. Original Music by Jahn Sood and Brian Cavanagh- Strong. Production Managed by Mukesh Gupta. Poster Designed by Nadia Shervani. Marketing by Crow. Lighting Operated by Arun Jindal. Sound Operated by Dhruv Rai. Camera Operated by Ariella Blank and Debjit Banerjee. Stage Managed by Shruti Sunder. Photography by Nayantara Parikh. Black Box Okhla, New Delhi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1525708648264-QFCBW413F58N88OC3FJS/1.jpg Productions Woyzeck by George Büchner An unfinished, fragmented classic by the German playwright George Büchner, Woyzeck is the story of a young man's descent into madness as he grapples with his place in the world. Featuring Farhad Colabavala, Ariella Dawn, Piyush Kumar, Uma Katju, Madhav Mehta, Kshitij Mervin Ekka, Samar Sarila, Shaik Sheeba. Lighting Design by Deepa Dharmadhikari. Production Manager Mukesh Gupta. Lighting Programmed and Operated by Arun Jindal. Sound Design by Dhruv Rai. Associate Scenic Design by Vanya Vaishnavi. Poster Designed by Nadia Shervani. Front of House Tanya Malik. Set Construction by Anil Sharma. Lead Electrician Ashok Kumar. Photography by Nayantara Parikh. Black Box Okhla, New Delhi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1433993109262-V4P3306VLUPSCY52KX04/_DSC4983.JPG Productions One Night Only - Ken Ludwig’s Lend me a Tenor The tickets are sold, the stage is set, and all of Delhi is ready to welcome Rajinder Singh, the world renowned theatre actor, to perform his highly acclaimed ‘Raavan Ki Aatmakatha’. But, it’s three minutes to curtain and the leading man has suddenly gone missing! Featuring Farhad Colabavala, Mallika Dua, Madhav Mehta, Shashank Pant, Soumya Parker, Manasi Punde, Nadia Shervani, Siddhant Verma. Lighting Design by Gautam Bhattacharya. Assitant Directed by Nayantara Parikh. Stage managed by Aarti Sethi. Production Managed by Mukesh Gupta. Set Construction by Prem Chand Dhiman. M.L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1434370838358-JFWRCZ7C8B200NBHF253/image-asset.jpeg Productions Fasten Your Seatbelt Adit has been juggling his three flight attendant girlfriends much to his maid Parvati’s distress. Things get rather messy when flights are delayed, schedules change and an old school friend, Raj, joins them all. Featuring Sanjana Batra, Mallika Dua, Madhav Mehta, Soumya Parker, Dhruv Sachdeva, Pallavi Sharma. Lighting Design by Gautam Bhattacharya. Co-directed by Nayantara Parikh. Stage managed by Aatri Sethi. Production Managed by Mukesh Gupta. Sound by Ankit Gujral and Tara Bedi. Graphics by Illum Design. Set Constructed by Prem Chand Dhiman. The Shri Ram Centre for the Performing Arts, New Delhi, India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1553499090150-L2M17XKM1Z0J5EWED98I/ys-oj-mw-01-850-1659.jpg Productions Monsoon Wedding Musical (Staging Workshop) The perfect storm starts brewing when family members from around the world descend on Delhi for a nonstop four-day celebration of an arranged marriage between a modern upper-middle-class Indian family’s only daughter and an American guy she’s never met. But the bride is having an affair, her father’s financial troubles deepen, and dark family secrets surface. The forecast calls for drama, love, hope, laughs, and a whole lot of rain. Featuring Akshay Sharma, Ankur Sabharwal, Anisha Nagarajan, Boloram Das, Charu Shankar, Faezeh Jalali, Gagan Dev Riar, Joyeeta Dutta, Kaveri Sheth, Mansi Multani, Meher Mistry, Mirvaan Vinayak, Namit Das, Puja Sarup, Rahul Tewar, Sharvari Deshpande, Sorab Wadia, Swaroopa Ghosh and Waseem Alzer. Music by Vishal Bhardwaj. Book by Sabrina Dhawan and Arpita Mukherjee. Lyrics by Masi Asare and Susan Birkenhead. Movement Directors Scott Graham and Eddie Kay. Choreography by Payal Kadakia. Scenic Design by Tim Hatley. Costume Design by Aneeth Arora and Himanshu Shani. Lighting Design by Arghya Lahiri. Sound design by Scott Lehrer. Orchestrations by Jamshied Sharifi. Music Directed by Julie McBride. Stage Managed by Candice Wilson. Production Managed by OranJuice. Produced by Rahul Chitella. Photographs courtesy Mirabai Films. Co-Directed by Mira Nair and Nikhil Mehta. Black Box Okhla, New Delhi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1571910056985-MZTM2MVQ8N242U8SG0IF/Website+1.jpg Productions For The Record Winner of 6 Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) including Best Play, Best Original Script, Best Director, Best Ensemble, Best Lead Actor and Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Synopsis: 1971: A tribunal is tasked with selecting three artefacts that represent India to the world. 2018: Transcripts of the tribunal meetings are released to the public. 2019: “For The Record” recreates the deliberations, the disputes and the drama! Created and performed by Dhwani Vij, Kriti Pant, Krittika Bhattacharjee, Kshitij Mervin, Neel Sengupta, Niharika Lyra Dutt, Prashant Prakash. Lighting Design by Deepa Dharmadhikari. Sound Design by Dhruv Rai. Lighting Operated by Arroon Jindall. Photography by Nayantara Parikh. Directed by Nikhil Mehta. Black Box Okhla, New Delhi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1698828280796-13AHO0E3M253LC870HI7/IMG_8954.jpg Productions Extant: A Queer Happening A 40-minute immersion into a tapestry of kaleidoscopic elements that embrace the spirit of queer life force. Much like a Queer Ball, an eclectic array of performance acts converge in this Happening to create a dynamic mosaic of many shades of queerness. Created and Performed by Aabshaar Wakhloo, Denis Barwa, Ishaan Osheen, Jasmine Yadav, Katyayini Pant, Mohit Raj Thapa, Parinay Mehra, Vidur Sethi and Zahra. Music by Rishabh Bhan Singh. Movement Director Manjari Kaul. Costume design by Nimish Shah, Bhaane. Dramaturgy by Indranjan Banerjee. Light design by Deepa Dharmadhikari. Photography by Nayantara Parikh. Directed by Nikhil Mehta. Black Box Okhla, New Delhi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1759831487455-VSOUSVB0T2SYXABGG8E5/IMG20250601163514.jpg Productions Full Cream India, September 1995. News comes to a housing colony at dawn, dripping with possibility. Where does it lead to? What can it become? Created and performed by Dhwani Vij, Kriti Pant, Krittika Bhattacharjee, Kshitij Mervin Ekka, Neel Sengupta, Noel Sengupta, Prashant Prakash. Light Design by Deepa Dharmadhikari. Sound Design by Rishabh Bhan. Directed by Nikhil Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1433943074538-IT5NMOU1QJC2QZBOX856/DSC_0129.JPG Productions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1433960168369-S50VX0YEJ95MNDW721I8/IMG_6766.JPG Productions Ivanov by Anton Chekhov Featuring John Bambery, Jacklyn Collier, Sarah Ecton-Luttrell, Madeline Fendrick, Logan James Hall, Augustine Hargrave, Laura Lassy, Austin Mitchell, Michael Mullen, Heather Thiry, Eric Whitten. Lighting Design by Dante Olivia Smith. Choreography by Liz Beres. Dramaturgy by Chritina Hurtado. Stage managed by Alison Andersen. Sound Operated by Ankit Gujral. Photography by Nayantara Parikh. Schapiro Theatre, Columbia University, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1433993586351-API35D82708X9AOOVG0P/DSC_0157.jpg Productions Pardeh Ke Peeche Kya Hai? For her directorial debut, Shrimati Padmavati is presenting a piece of epic Indian theater – the first part of The Ramayana. With 10 hours to curtain, the lines between performance and real life are rapidly blurring. The action on stage is not half as exciting as the drama backstage. Inspired by Michael Frayn’s Noises Off. Featuring Sandhini Agarwal, Raunaq Babbar, Sanjana Batra, Mihir Chattopadhyay, Farhad Colabavala, Madhav Mehta, Soumya Parker, Dhruv Sachdeva, Ishita Sachdeva. Lighting Design by Gautam Bhattacharya. Stage managed by Sonali Bhasin assisted by Tara Bedi and Pranay Manchanda. Assistant Directed by Nayantara Parikh. Wardrobe managed by Aarti Sethi. Production Managed by Mukesh Gupta. Sound by Ankit Gujral. Graphics by Illum Designs. Set Constructed by Prem Chand Dhiman. LTG Auditorium, New Delhi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1433959178691-GO7V4E0W4GKGBNUT2S0Z/20111204_nyc_1FS4012_midres.jpg Productions The Basement by Harold Pinter Two men, Law and Stott, compete for possession of and dominance over a basement flat and their at-times mutual girlfriend, Jane. Featuring Carl Anders Stjernlof, Jonathan Hopkins, Dominique Toney. Lighting Design by Gertjan Houben. Stage managed by Alison Andersen and Aislinn Curry. Photography by Francesco Sapienza and Gertjan Houben. Schapiro Theatre, Columbia University, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1433958608320-IV95SLTQ4SCLG6O6NUCQ/_MG_8248.JPG Productions True Love by Chuck Mee. Based on Euripides' Hippolytus and Racine's Phaedra—but placed in America's trailer trash world, in which Phaedra does not restrain herself from sleeping with her fourteen year old stepson, and all the townspeople sit around the gas station talking about the extraordinary relationships they have had or known of, living in their normal world—each of them as true a love as human beings are capable of. Featuring Charlotte Bydwell, Lauren Cipoletti, Maura Hooper, Miles Jacoby, Kyle Schafer, Caroline Siewart, Heather Thiry, Eric Whitten. Lighting Design by Gertjan Houben. Scenic Design by Brittany Vasta. Dramaturgy by Lauren Whitehead. Stage managed by Whitney Dearden. Music by Nicholas DiMichele. Photography by Talya Chalef. Horace Mann Theatre, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1433992634554-8BEOPJNJT49HDD9K1EGU/TMMH+pics+2.0.jpg Productions The Mystery of Martand Haveli by Keith Boynton Roudra assembles a gathering of India’ s greatest detectives to test his mettle against their collective brainpower. But when a murder is committed under his very nose, the detectives must solve The Mystery of Martand Haveli - a case as bizarre and quirky as the characters themselves. Featuring Sadhavi Ashwani, Mallika Dua, Pranay Manchanda, Akash Mehta, Madhav Mehta, Soumya Parker, Shivan Kumar Raheja, Nadia Shervani, Shamir Upadhyay. Lighting Design by Gautam Bhattacharya. Stage managed by Aarti Sethi. Production Managed by Mukesh Gupta and Tarini Warner. Sound Operated by Tara Bedi. Graphics by Harshyla Singh. Set Construction by Prem Chand Dhiman. The Shri Ram Centre for the Performing Arts, New Delhi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1433947204019-LP0K5E0P57TRPA7CK8BN/A+%2877%29.JPG Productions Sab Theek Hai, Doctor Sahab? 6 characters defy every rule in the book as they create a world far from what is accepted as normal! Featuring Aakash Bhatia, Farhad Colabavala, Mallika Dua, Akash Mehta, Madhav Mehta, Soumya Parker. Lighting Design by Gautam Bhattacharya. Scenic Design by Blanca Añon Garcia. Stage managed by Aarti Sethi. Production Managed by Mukesh Gupta. Graphics by Harshyla Singh. Set Construction by Prem Chand Dhiman. LTG Auditorium, New Delhi http://www.nikhilmehta.co.in/nikhil-mehta daily 1.0 2017-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1436010769944-J0NXJ4PBAXJ8YOWKZR8R/DSC_0128.JPG Nikhil Mehta http://www.nikhilmehta.co.in/contact daily 0.75 2021-01-22 http://www.nikhilmehta.co.in/resume daily 0.75 2025-10-07 http://www.nikhilmehta.co.in/about daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55781053e4b053a499f5d748/1510406917084-H106WFYAAQ39R06ER9J6/IMG_9131.jpg About Nikhil Mehta is the founder and Artistic Director of New Delhi based performing arts initiative - Black Box Okhla. Nikhil has a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre directing from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dramatic Literature and Economics from New York University. He was awarded “Best Director” at the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) 2020. Nikhil is currently based in New Delhi, India. http://www.nikhilmehta.co.in/press daily 0.75 2020-09-10