Rupesh Tillu

Rupesh Tillu is an actor, director and independent film-maker, born in Mumbai India. He holds MFA in Physical Comedy from The National School of Dramatic Arts, Sweden. He has received several international theatre awards such as Outstanding Artist/Act - Stockholm Fringe Festival 2012, A Special Jury Award - Best of Prague Fringe Festival 2013 and many more. He played the title role of Boicheck in a feature film directed by national award winner Santosh Sivan. The film is a Hindi adaptation of Georg Buchner's Woyzeck. He played the character of 'Yorick' in a Hollywood production 'Ophelia', directed by Claire McCarthy, where he got an opportunity to do scenes with Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. He has also played the character of Ajay in the national and international award winner feature film Ship of Theseus. His new work Har Och Nu is commissioned by Tyst Teater/Riksteatern (Swedish National Theatre), which premiered in March 2017 in Sweden, followed by a national tour. He has worked with several theatre companies such as Avikal Theatre Company (India), Urban Theatre Company (Sweden), Teater Slava (Sweden), Bananteatern (Sweden). He has done expeditions with Clowns without Borders to Moldova, Palestine, Israel, India, Jordan, Nepal, Bhutan and Egypt. He is a part of Drömställe - A clown trio, which toured nationally in all renowned theatres of Sweden in 2013, and since then the play has been touring in Europe's prestigious theatre festivals. His vocational training includes one year Physical Theatre at Fhsk Vårdinge By. Professional Clown training with Clowns without Borders Sweden. He has also worked for UNESCO Centre for Peace, Frederick M.D, USA. His debut documentary feature film 'The Living Gods' is co-produced by the Swedish National Television which will premiere on SVT- Kspecial in the autumn 2017 . He is the founder and artistic director of Theatreact.