Shashank Pallav

Shashank Pallav is an actor and a theatre maker. A doctor turned full time artist, Pallav has acquired training in different dance forms such as hip hop, locking, popping, breaking, and Bollywood. He is a Kalaripayattu, Thang Ta, and Tai Chi practitioner as well. He comes from Patna. He has been a part of over 300 national and international street dance battle events and has won awards for the same. He then founded his own dance crew, known as "Dpirates," which was selected among the top 8 crews from across India to perform in the finale of Indias biggest hip-hop festival, "Brezzer Vivid Shuffle," in 2017. He has organised many dances and educational events in Patna for underprivileged people.
He has worked in New Delhi with renowned theatre companies. Some of them are Barry John Acting Studio,, Sukhmanch Theatre, The Actor's Mirror , Fitzmaurice Voicework by Ryan O'Shea, and Parvah Theatre Laboratory by Neeraj Kabi to receive formal training.?He has also worked with Sanjay Upadhyay in Patna. In 2019-20, he was awarded a fellowship from the Delhi government's Department of Arts & Culture through the "Street Theatre and Performance" program.
He then explored himself as a chief assistant director and assistant director for short films and web series with a team from FTII, which is set to release on the "Humara" movie channel.
Upon graduating from DSM, he founded his own theatre group, "Inroots Theatre and Film Company," under which he conducted acting workshops for beginners. He is currently in Mumbai,
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