Vayu Naidu
Vayu Naidu is a performance storyteller, founder Artistic Director & Storyteller of the ‘Vayu Naidu Intercultural Storytelling Theatre Company Ltd.,’ Chair of the Black British Theatre Archives, and Professor of Practice at SOAS in the School of Arts. She has a PhD in the Epic and Oral traditions of Ramayana and Mahabharata from the University of Leeds. Her writing—short stories, novels, children’s books, radio plays—draws on the oral traditions of storytelling. Her novels include Sita’s Ascent (2013, nominated for the Commonwealth Book Award), The Sari of Surya Vilas (2017), and The Living Legend: Ramayana Tales from Far and Near (2024).
