Workshops

Vinay Varma has been conducting Acting, Voice, and Body Language Workshops at Sutradhar since 1999, and has identified and trained more than a hundred talents. Some well-known faces trained by him are Vijay Varma, Sree Vishnu, Aditi Sharma (Ahana of Kasam Tere Pyaar Ki), Vijay Deverakonda, Y.P. Yashashwini (working as an Independent film editor for Hindi feature films). Some have won accolades for their short films, some do regular voice-overs and dubbing for feature films, ad-films, and documentaries, and some are assisting big-time film directors.

Vinay Varma has held multiple acting workshops for corporates over the years.

  • A workshop for Satyam in 2004.
  • A workshop for middle and senior executives for ITC in 2009.
  • A production-oriented workshop for Thomson Reuters in 2010.
  • A "Training the Trainer" workshop for platform skills for Sujana Group in 2013.
  • A short workshop for the employees of Cognizant in March 2013.
  • A short workshop for female HR executives as part of the `Women`s Day` celebrations in Novotel in March 2014.
  • A production-oriented acting workshop for members for the Institute of Indian Interior Designers in May 2015, to celebrate their anniversary.
  • Theatre workshop (February 2017) for project Bright Spark, Youngistaan (an NGO) which works for underprivileged children.
  • "Bacchha Bollywood" is a series of workshops about all the facets of filmmaking - acting, music, dance, scriptwriting and film appreciation - for children, organized by Buzzaar, from Bombay. Vinay Varma overlooked the workshop with his team comprising of Deepti Girotra and Shayontoni Ghosh in May 2016. He personally conducted the Acting Workshop to children aged 5-15, over two batches, resulting in individual productions.
  • In May 2017, he conducted a theatre workshop for Aga Khan Foundation, Hyderabad at Kompally for over 90 students hailing from Gujarat State.
Guest Faculty/Speaker
  • He has also taught a Certificate Course in Acting for students of St. Joseph's Degree and PG College, Hyderabad in March(2015), October (2015) and January - February(2017).
  • He worked as an Adjunct Faculty to teach "Directing the Actor" program for AIFSM, at CCRT for students of film making in 2012.
  • Conducted Sessions as a Guest Faculty on “History and Development of Indian Theatre” for Teachers from all over India, at CCRT, Hyderabad From 2017 – 2019.
  • Invited to address the High School students by New Farakka High School (H.S.), Murshidabad for a Education Symposium on "Alignment of Education Stakeholders".
  • Invited as a celebrity Guest at RIFTI Film School to have an interaction with their students.
  • A webinar conversation as a speaker with “Samanvay – confluence of art and soul.” on topic “Art: A perspective from page to stage.”
  • A Webinar of programme Rangsafar with little Thespian Kolkatta.
  • "Mulaqat Ek Fankar Se" webinar with "The Humsub Drama Group of Ghalib Institute, New Delhi".