Anamika Haksar is a theatre director trained under Badal Sircar and the National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi, under B.V. Karanth.

Haksar was trained in the prestigious theatre institute GITIS (Russian Institute of Theatre Arts), Moscow. She is the only Indian to have studied the Stanislavski theatre method from the Soviet Union. She was awarded Lenin’s Diploma of Excellence for Direction (1982-1988).

She has directed over 25 productions and conducted over 60 workshops, where young participants and marginalised people from all over India took part. Alongside, she has trained some of the most contemporary eminent theatre directors as well as actors in theatre, film, and television.

She was instrumental in formulating the syllabus for the production process for NSD in the 1990s, where she was on the Academic Council during the directorship of Anuradha Kapur.

She is credited with bringing a new language of visual metaphorical poetic theatre to India in a contemporary context as well as a relook at Indian realism.

Besides, she has also directed a film called Ghode ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon, which has won several national and international awards. Haksar is one of the few contemporary artists who has worked in the prestigious Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2016.