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Tamara P Nedungadi

Visiting Faculty

Tamara P Nedungadi is a Postgraduate in Sociology from Mumbai University. She had an exposure to cinema right from childhood as her father was an eminent Film critic. Her passion for the visual medium got an impetus when she did the Film Appreciation course of FTII in 1986.

After her post-graduation, she joined renowned Film Editor Renu Saluja in 1990. Amongst the films she assisted Renu were films such as ‘Sardar’, ‘Dharavi’ and ‘Maya Memsaab.’ She decided to expand her horizons and became an assistant director to renowned filmmakers Ashutosh Gowarikar and Kundan Shah.

In the Mid 1990’s she started her independent career as an online editor (vision mixer) for multi camera TV Shows. Some of the shows she edited were ‘Swabhimaan’, ‘Farz’ and ‘Nyay’. She got her first break as a Director for a TV show titled ‘Waaris’ in 1999. She then went on to direct many shows over the next 12 years. Some of the shows she directed were, ‘Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi’, ‘Kittie Party’, ‘Remix’.

Apart from her career as a Director and Editor, she is trained in Oddissi dance form under Guru Jhelum Paranjpe. She has performed in dance ballets and shows, choreographed by dancers like, Astad Deboo and Illeana Chirasti.

She has also been part of Satyadev Dubey and Sunil Shanbag’s plays like ‘Andha Yug’ and ‘Pratibimb’. Her association with these stalwarts helped her understand Stagecraft and nuances of speech and performance.

Zachary Coffin

Visiting Faculty

Zachary Coffin is an American performer, filmmaker and trainer who has worked in nearly 40 countries – and lived on four continents – including in India for over a decade.

Zack has combined his global executive experience and award-winning storytelling skills to help his clients and students both grow and improve.

As a trainer and consultant, Zack has developed and conducted 150 workshops for clients ranging from Nobel Prize-winning NGOs to the central banks of three G7 countries, and from the smallest of startups and to the largest companies in the world. At consultancy firm KPMG, Zack was promoted every year and became the youngest Global Product Leader ever in the firm – reporting directly into the Office of the Chairman. He advised clients across sectors in governance, strategy, business development, knowledge management, organizational development and innovation, and has been the keynote speaker at conferences, written thought leadership white papers, and been cited in newspapers worldwide.

As an actor, Zack has performed in over 100 film, TV, commercial and theatre productions in India and the West. Formally, Zack trained at the Stella Adler Acting Studio in New York, and studied under the Oscar-nominated actress Nina Foch in Los Angeles. He also trained at three film schools in the U.S. – studying screenwriting at Columbia University and film production at NYU’s Sight & Sound Summer program, then moving to Los Angeles to focus on directing for three years at University of Southern California, where he won the Television Academy’s prestigious internship in directing and worked on an Emmy-winning TV series in Hollywood. He graduated with an MFA in Film Production (Writing/Directing) from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and with a BA, magna cum laude, from Columbia University.