Uprooting Medea

Khameleon Productions, co-sponsored by the Brown Arts Institute (BAI), presents the Uprooting Medea tour, which will take place from February to May 2022.

The four-month tour, curated and produced by BAI Visiting Artist Shivaike Shah, will commence at Brown University as part of their inaugural Interrogating the Classics Series, in collaboration with the BAI and the Brown Departments of Classics and Theatre Arts & Performance Studies. It will continue across 12 states, visiting 30 of the nation’s leading colleges and universities. We will visit classes, work with students in script workshops, and participate in roundtable conversations with students and staff around multiple topics related to the project. At the conclusion of the tour, Khameleon will return to Brown to host a virtual gathering for participating institutions which will make space for an intercollegiate exchange of experiences around the project, including appearances by special guests who will lead discussions interrogating the performance history and legacy of Medea, and the Classics more broadly. 

Read the BAI’s official announcement of Uprooting Medea here.

Uprooting Medea Team

Shivaike Shah
Producer & BAI Visiting Artist

Shivaike Shah is a British Indian producer who has worked in fashion, theatre and film, and recently finished production on a major Netflix feature film. After graduating in English from University College, Oxford, in 2019, he founded Khameleon Productions in March 2020. He has since been awarded support from across the UK and the US to build the project and company, and is the creator and host of the Khameleon Classics podcast.

Cara Vaitilingam
Tour Manager

Cara is a producer, director, writer and performer. She started as Khameleon’s Administrative Producer shortly after graduating from University College London in 2021. During the pandemic she founded and produced performance initiative Curtain Up In Crisis, and as a theatre director has collaborated with high-profile creatives including Tim Rice. She is the Tour Manager for Uprooting Medea.

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