Soumyak Kanti DeBiswas

Kanti co-founded Tin Can - a theatre company based in Calcutta in 2004. Since then his work as writer and director has been supported by National Theatre Studio, British Council, Parthian Books, Seagull Foundation for the Arts, National Theatre Scotland, The Yard Theatre, The Courtyard Theatre and Theatre Royal Plymouth. In 2008 he was awarded Best Director at Thespo X Mumbai and subsequently performed as lead actor in two feature films in India: Tasher Desh (dir: Q/2012) and Madly Bangali (dir: Anjan Dutt/2010). Between 2010 - 2012 Kanti graduated from the Royal College of Art London as an Inlaks scholar and founded a nightclub at The Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick. The Yard Theatre received the 2013 Empty Space Peter Brook/Mobius Award, the 2014 Off West End Awards for Outstanding Achievement and voted #2 theatre venue in a public poll by Time Out London. In 2016 Kanti returned to India to write and produce a first feature - 'Cat Sticks' awarded Jury Honourable Mention at its world premiere in Slamdance Film Festival, Grand Jury Award at Mammoth Lakes Film Festival and nominated for Best Screenplay at New York India Film Festival in 2019. IMDb Mini Biography By: [Biography](https://imdb.com/search/name?bio_author=Biography&view=simple&sort=alpha) Vis kilde på IMDb