Yasmin Sidhwa
Artistic Director of Mandala Theatre Company
Yasmin Sidhwa is Artistic Director of Mandala Theatre Company, an Oxford based, national and international touring and training company that creates visceral theatre giving a voice to those whose stories are not heard and making them visible and offers pathways to young people from Black, Asian, ethnically diverse and White working-class backgrounds into the arts.
She has toured nationally and internationally with the Royal National Theatre Company, Tara Arts and Aquila Theatre Companies and worked in Repertory Theatre, Television and Radio as a professional actor and director. Yasmin has worked for many years as a workshop facilitator, theatre director, lecturer and storyteller and taken work to schools, colleges, and festivals. She directed and produced numerous theatre productions as Creative Learning Director at Pegasus Theatre, for 17 years. Yasmin was founder and director of Mesh - a bi-annual International Youth Arts Festival hosted by Pegasus working with international organisations from Europe and beyond. In 2014 she received an Oxfordshire High Sheriff’s Award for services to the Arts and young people.
Yasmin is an Independent Governor at Oxford Brookes University and an Executive Board member of CREARC in Grenoble, France and an RSA Fellow. Inspired to live by Kahil Gibrans’ quote: Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
