Anand Rajaram

Anand Rajaram is a Toronto performer who works as an actor, puppeteer, mask performer, writer, director, teacher and performance artist, chiefly with theater companies there. He holds a bachelor's degree in theater from the University of Waterloo. With CORPUS, a clown-based dance-theater group, he helped create Nuit Blance, which was nominated for a Dora, and toured that production and Escadron Volant, also called A Flock of Flyers, in Canada and Europe, later taking the second to Benin, West Africa. Second City hired him after his solo mime show Cowboys & Indians, with music by Bob Wiseman, won the Summerworks Theatre Festival's Artist Spotlight Award. Three shows he made with Second City followed, the first earning a Canadian Comedy Award and the second a Dora nomination. He had a recurring lead part in the miniseries Across The River To Motor City, guested on Punched Up, and worked with Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta on television and CBC radio projects.