The epics and performance storytelling form the spirit and substance of Vayu Naidu’s work. Her PhD from Leeds researched South Asian theory and practice and her post-doctoral AHRC research was based on migration stories. She founded Vayu Naidu Intercultural Storytelling Theatre independently touring theatre directed by Chris Banfield and storytelling productions while at the University of Kent, Gulbenkian Theatre.

In a distinctive millennial collaboration with BCMG and composer Judith Weir she toured Future perfect across north, south, east and west of India. Her published novels are Sita’s Ascent (Penguin: 2013, nominated for the Commonwealth book Award), and The Sari of Surya Vilas (Speaking Tiger/India and Affirmpress/Aus-NZ: 2017, selected for ABC Book of the week at Byron Bay Literature Festival).

Her co-authored work: Our Mothers Ourselves is out now while she has completed another novel. She is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Greenwich, and Visiting Fellow at RADA curating a course: Theatre of the OutSpoken.

She is writer on Lives of clay, Tim Supple’s new work with Vidya Thirunarayan.