Quick Facts
Biography
Siddharth (Sid) Katragadda is a writer, filmmaker, playwright, poet, artist and engineer of Indian origin.
Writing
Katragadda's first Novel in Verse, Dark Rooms won an award at the San Diego Book Prize, 2002 (Poetry). A sequel, The Other Wife also won the same award in 2003.Numerous articles written by him have been published on CNN.His work has appeared in Grey Sparrow Press (best new literary journal 2011), New Plains Review - Fall 2018 Issue,A Generation Defining Itself, Carter Street Review, Eastown Fiction, WriteFromWrong Journal and numerous literary journals.
His work has been reviewed in the journals like Book Review Asian Journal and "One India",
Books
| Year | Book | Genre | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Dark Rooms | poetry | Runners-up San Diego Book Awards |
| 2003 | The Other Wife | poetry | Runners-up San Diego Book Awards |
Painting
An emerging artist/painter and is know for his abstract portraits of Indian women. He has held various exhibitions in India and in America. He has been painting since he was ten. He believes that an artist's primary objective should be to capture a culture – and that a culture, or ethnicity, can be best understood through its women (because society shapes its women). He paints colorful and elaborately dressed, voluptuous, dark Indian women - paying equal attention to their omnipresent bindis and resplendent ornaments as he does to their vibrant draped saris and brilliant blouses.
Exhibitions
| Year | Gallery | Solo/Group | Show |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Chitra Kala Parishad, Bangalore | Solo | |
| 2010 | San Diego Bay | Group | Art Walk San Diego |
| 2010 | Mixture Gallery, San Diego | Group | "Mixture" |
| 2012 | IndianArtCollectors.com | Solo | "Feature Artist" |
| 2013 | Renaissance Gallerie, Bangalore | Group | "The Parrot" |
| 2014 | Kalarasa, Bangalore | Group | "Eclectic Collections - 30 emerging Indian Artists" |
| 2014 | Kensington Art Gallery, San Diego | Group | "Boutiful Art - Juried by Christine Knocke" |
| 2015 | Wine Vault, San Diego | Solo | "The Woman" |
Plays
He is an emerging playwright. His short play Power Outage will be produced at the 11th Towne Street Theatre's Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival - at the Stella Adler Theatre, Hollywood April 4th - 26th, 2020. He has three full length plays waiting to be produced, and numerous short plays.
Theatre Productions
| Year | Play | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | The Power Outage | Stella Adler Theatre, Hollywood 11th-annual-10-min-play-festival |
Films
He is an award-winning filmmaker/screenwriter. His short film "Varanasi" won the Best Foreign Film Award at the Atlantic City CineFest, New Jersey, 2013. His screenplay "Painless" (aka The Mercy Machine) was a Quarterfinalist at the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, 2016,the Screencraft Drama Contest 2017, the WeScreenplay Screenplay Awards- and Semi-finalist at the Southern California Screenplay Contest.His short documentary, "The Indus Code" was shortlisted for the 6th International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala.
He has also worked as cinematographer, editor and lyricist in his films.
