Muneeb ur Rehman
Muneeb ur Rehman is a multi-disciplinary Applied Performance Facilitator from Pakistan working with the credo ‘Performance-for-All’ for human growth and development across diverse human contexts. From education and welfare to corporations and hospitals, from universities to research centers, he has helped organizations achieve their human potential through customized visceral and embodied methods. The recipients of his facilitation have been marginalized youth, school children, cancer patients, therapists, corporate employees, team leaders, performers, design students and researchers in South Asia, Europe, US, South Africa and Singapore. He has to his credit establishing Pakistan’s first theatre department in a secondary school, working with marginalized youth from violence-stricken region of Lyari in Karachi. In Nepal, he also trained Tibetan refugees in employing drama to refine their pedagogy practice in addition to setting up the collective NepalImprov. In the technological domain, he has partnered with EDCAS PAF KIIT, facilitating researchers there in developing the human component in processes for circuits and systems design. A proponent of pursuing Design Thinking through performance, he has also facilitated design research students at Habib University in exploring and prototyping user insights in the redesign of domestic appliances. As a creative consultant, he facilitates artists, independent creatives and art organizations in harnessing and developing their creative visions. He has mentored students from South Africa, Singapore, Nepal and Pakistan. He is the founder of Dramajik, an Applied Performance Initiative promoting human development through experiential performance approaches. He has presented his pedagogical practice regularly at international forums Singapore Drama Educators Association, Performing the World, Play Perform Learn and Grow, Drama for Life. His research on organic creative practices for organizational and community development was recently published in the anthology Theatre and Democracy by Norwegian University of Science & Technology and University of Witwatersrand. It can be accessed at: https://press.nordicopenaccess.no/index.php/noasp/catalog/book/135