Ulka Mayur
Writing
Biography
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 | 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐫 | 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 | 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫
Ulka Mayur is an Indian film and theatre director-producer working across films, documentaries, and live performance.She directed, wrote, and co-produced the documentary Where the Heart Is, officially selected at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), International Film Festival of South Asia (IFFSA), and Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF). She was the producer and story writer of the award-winning short film Are You Listening (2020), which received Best Story at the Ahmedabad International Children's Film Festival.
Her screen credits include directing the music video Doicha Padar and serving as Executive Producer on the feature film Lost & Found in Kumbh. She has written two Hindi television series broadcast on Star Bharat and Sony Entertainment Television, serving as showrunner on one of them.
In theatre, she develops original performance works that span contemporary narratives alongside reimagined mythological and folkloric material. Her solo production, Cast Off All Shame, received the South Asia Laadli Award for Media and Advertising for gender sensitivity in media.
She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Story Circus, focused on original storytelling across mediums.
TMDB mini biography by: Ashvin Borad