Rachana is an award-winning British South Asian Theatre Designer and Illustrator,

and has been practising design for theatre, dance and opera for more than 20 years, during which time she has created a diverse portfolio of work incorporating illustration, animation and film with spatial design and live performance. Her production design works include collaborations with prominent artists such as Tim Crouch’s ‘Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation’ a play presented through the parallel worlds of stage action and illustrated text (Royal Court/ National Theatre of Scotland); Clare Cunningham’s ‘Menage a Trois’ a contemporary dance piece (National Theatre Scotland); Seeta Patel’s ‘Shree’ a solo dance complimenting ‘The Rite of Spring’ (Sadler’s Wells/ The Lowry), Emma Rice‘s adaptation of ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’ (RSC/Barbican). She has recently designed Tim Crouch's 'The Tempest' at the Globe Theatre.

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TRAINED: As an architect at Edinburgh College of Art, MA in Scenography at Central St Martin’s College