Anand Rajaram has a bachelor's degree in Drama and Theatre Arts from Waterloo University. He has done theatre work at CanStage, YPT, and Carousel Players. He was a member of the Second City National Touring Co. and is currently a company member with CORPUS Dance Projects with whom he was a gold medallist in Street Theatre at the 4th International Francophonie Games and performed at the recent Festival International de Theatre (FITHEB) in Benin, West Africa. Film credits include Mira Nair's My Own Country (1998) (TV) and independent films Death Threat and Fly (1999), both of which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and on CBC's Canadian Reflections. Television credits include Blue Murder, Earth: Final Conflict and Relic Hunter. He was the animatronic puppeteer and voice for YTV's Snit. He is also a puppeteer, director, producer, artistic director of King Rudolph Players Theatre co., co-artistic director for Toast and Jam puppet improv and co-artistic director of Maya: South Asian theatre co. As a writer, he has written for Snit Station, writing a play commissioned by YPT and is currently playwright-in-residence with VideoCabaret, developing his first play, Hys Unauthoryzed Lyfe & Tymes. He is currently directing Marie Beath Badian's Novena for the Toronto Fringe Festival and is developing his one-person clown show, Cowboys & Indians for performance in 2003. In the fall he will be touring Canada with show called Nuit Blanche.
