Who we are...

Greasepaint was started by a couple of people, and we thought we should introduce who we are, before we get more into what we do here at Greasepaint.

Vishal Verma- Founder & Director, Greasepaint
Vishal started his theatre career in the year 1999 at the age of 17 years, as the lead actor in the mega musical “Singing in the Rain” with Delhi’s leading theatre group Stagelights. He went on to study Economics at Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, which marked the beginning of an extremely interesting phase of his theatre life. College theatre brought with it varied roles, experimental hard hitting themes, awards and recognition in the field of acting, direction and production. He has also essayed lead roles in a number of professional productions namely “Chapter Two” (Nicholas Kharkhongar, Delhi, 2000), “Whose wife is it anyway” (Stagelights, Delhi, 2003), “The Lesson” (Nepathya, Mumbai, 2005),“Smelling Manipur in Africa” (Pornob Mukherjee, Mumbai, 2006), “Under the Covers” (Stagelights, Delhi, 2006), “Mahim Junction” (Sohaila Kapur, 2009) and “That’s the Exit” (Madhu Sagar, 2009) . He has worked closely with the children of the YMCA orphanage in theater workshops and has acted in a short film “How to get rid of it” in the year 2005.

Shikha Pahwa- Co-Founder & Director, Greasepaint
For Shikha, it all started at the age of ten, when she acted in ‘Annie’- a Kidsworld Public production in New Delhi. This started a love affair with theatre which has lasted to date. The Chief Secretary of the Dramatics Society at Shri Ram College of Commerce, she acted in and directed several stage play and street play productions in the Inter Collegiate circle. She was adjudged the ‘Best Actress’ at prestigious college festivals at St. Stephens, Delhi and BITS, Pilani. Apart from being the leading actress in many productions Shikha’s body of work includes pivotal roles in a number of professional public productions namely Whose Wife is it Anyway? (Stage Lights, Delhi, 2002), The See Saw (Theatre World, Delhi, 2004) and The Night of January Sixteenth (Dracula, Jamshedpur, 2006).