Vikram Sridhar
Vikram Sridhar is a performance storyteller and a theatre practitioner based in Bangalore, India. He is the co-founder of Tahatto, a Bangalore-based award winning theatre group and has volunteered and worked with different organizations in the Animal Welfare and Conservation Space from his childhood days. He also consults and works with organizations in the social sector and combines the three in his Storytelling to make a difference.
An engineer and Management graduate by qualification from premier institutes of India like the IIT, he performs his stories across various spaces and cities in India for children and adults alike. He’s a TEDx speaker and talks about the power of Oral Storytelling in contemporary times. He also part of the organizing team and curates events and Festivals around Storytelling and Theatre like the Bangalore Literature Festival. Bengaluru Poetry Festival, the BeSt (Bengaluru Storytelling) Festival etc.
Around the Story Tree is his initiative to reach out to children and adults from different backgrounds through storytelling, using stories and folktales in a contemporary form as a strong medium for conservation and human relationships to connect listeners to their environment.