Shyamala Moorty (she/her)

Director, Dramaturg, Choreographer

Shyamala Moorty is an award winning director, choreographer and dramaturg who values collaboration, connection and transformation through the arts. Her live performance work has toured internationally and draws on dance, theater, multimedia, and community engagement. Her two short films have won multiple awards and are currently showing on the film festival circuit. Shyamala has worked as a core artist with TeAda Productions where she created two acclaimed solo shows. She is a founding member of both the Post Natyam Collective and the Dancing Storytellers, and has also created work and performed with Great Leap, the Rangoli Foundation, and as a principal dancer for the AMAN International Folk Dance and Music Ensemble. Shyamala teaches choreography at California State University Long Beach and is also a performance doula and loves to guide performers through creative projects from inception to stage.  She is honored to be co-directing two 2024 Hollywood fringe solo shows with the incredibly talented D’lo.  www.shyamalamoorty.com