Anand Rajaram
- Actor
- Writer
Anand Rajaram is an actor, writer, director, puppeteer, mask performer,
teacher and performance artist. He has worked with numerous theatre
companies in Toronto. With clown-based dance-theatre company, CORPUS,
he helped create the Dora-nominated show, Nuit Blance, and toured with
that show and another CORPUS show, Escadron Volant/A Flock of Flyers,
across Canada and Europe, and in performing Flock, also won the Gold
medal in performance at the International Francophonie games
(Olympic-style event for countries in the French commonwealth),
subsequently touring the show to Benin, West Africa. With CORPUS he was
also part of the successful kid's show, Four Square, for Corus
Entertainment. Also with Corus Ent, he was writer and animatronic
puppeteer for Snit on the show, Snit Station. His one-person mime show,
Cowboys & Indians, (with musical accompaniment by accomplished
musician, Bob Wiseman) won the Artist Spotlight Award at the
Summerworks Theatre Festival. This show brought him to the attention of
the Toronto Second City who hired him and with whom he created three
shows, the first of which won a Canadian Comedy Award, the second of
which was nominated for a Dora and all three of which brought him
acclaim from audiences and critics alike. Due to his work with the
Second City, he was asked to be a mentor/performer on The Second City's
Next Comedy Legend tv show, a reality show that in Second City form
parodies reality shows. He has also performed in a number of other tv
shows, including playing a recurring principal role in the dramatic
miniseries, Across The River To Motor City, and making a guest
appearance in the Comedy Network's pseudo-reality show, Punched Up. He
has a few features coming out as well as short films, some featured at
the Toronto International Film Festival, including the film Death
Threat, written and co-directed by Zarqa Nawaz, writer/creator of
Little Mosque On The Prairie. He has also worked with director Mira
Nair on the made-for-tv movie, My Own Country, and with director Deepa
Mehta on the CBC radio broadcast of Funny Boy. He has appeared in many
other CBC radio shows as well, both dramatic and comedic. He has a B.A
in Theatre from the University of Waterloo.
