Born on 6 June 1975 in New Delhi, Shrimati Rashi Bunny
Bhatnagar inherited the basic sense of theatre from her
mother Shrimati Kiron Bhatnagar – an alumnus of the
National School of Drama. Later, she received training under
Ebrahim Alkazi in 1994 at the Living Theatre Academy. She
went on to attend specialized courses in theatre arts at the
Department of Theatre, University of Alabama at Birmingham,
Alabama, USA (1996), and in theatre design at the Mason
Gross School of Performing Arts, Rutgers University, New
Jersey, USA in 1997.
Shrimati Rashi Bunny has directed a number of plays
including Girgit (based on Anton Chekhov's The Chameleon),
Dharamveer Bharti's Srishti ka Aakhiri Aadmi, etc. She
associated herself with the Padatik Theatre Group, Kolkata,
under Shyamanand Jalan supported by the Young Artist
Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India,
from 1998 to 2000. At Padatik she designed and directed
Nabh Taaron se Khandit Pulkit (a Hindi translation of a Harry
Kondoleon play). Later, she worked with Asmita theatre
group, Delhi and acted in many plays including Vijay Mishra's
Tatt Niranjana. Rashi went on to found her Banjara Theatre
Group first in Kharagpur, with a children’s theatre wing, and
then in Mumbai. She has participated in a number of theatre
festivals both within the country and abroad.
Shrimati Rashi Bunny Bhatnagar has received a number of
scholarships such as Ruby Lloyd Aspey Scholarship, UAB
Theatre Department, Birmingham, USA (1995); Junior
Fellowship for Theatre, Department of Culture, Govt. of India
(2002).
Shrimati Rashi Bunny Bhatnagar receives the Ustad Bismillah
Khan Yuva Puraskar for the year 2011 for her notable talent in
theatre direction.