Rez Kabir

Rezaul Kabir (Bengali: রেজাউল কবির; ), better known by his stage name Rez Kabir, is a Bangladeshi-born British stage and film actor.

As a child, Kabir wrote essays, science fiction stories, school dramas and nativity plays, and read books and comics.

After studying engineering at university, Kabir worked on over 30 productions with Tara Arts, as actor, stage manager and production manager, before moving into a didactic role in the Theatre in Education department.

The theatrical traditions that Tara Arts performed had narratives from Greek and European styles to specifically Indian or South East Indian styles. He set up Tamarind Theatre Company, in order to pass on these stories, and encourage new generations of artists to excel. He is artistic director of Tamarind Theatre Co., based in Tower Hamlets, which organisies storytelling plays, workshops and residencies. Though based on tradition, the approach is contemporary with elements of song, dance, and even Indian beatboxing are woven into the stories.

He is an actor, storyteller and drama tutor registered with London Borough of Tower Hamlets as a casual arts tutor. He has performed and taught throughout the UK and abroad in theatre, film and plays. This has been professionally, within schools education, community and other organisations. He has performed at Victoria Parliament in Melbourne, Australia, Greenwich Cutty Sark and Museum of London and in the Docklands, Dublin, Edinburgh International Animation Festival and schools in London and the East End.

Kabir has also starred in a number of films, including Zohra What You Looking At?, Give to Me the Life I Love and The Northern Paradigm. He is a core actor of the Brixton Windmill Project.

Kabir has written and adapted a number of plays, including Legend of Black Lotus, Look at London, Sagol, The Magic Scroll. He performs his stories in English, incorporating other languages such as Bengali. His stories are world based from traditional, as well as modern, sources. Using songs, movement, mime and puppetry, which he received training for at Little Angel Theatre). From August to September 2013, he played a lead role in Ayndrilla Singharay's Unsung, an adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore's short story Punishment at the Rosemary Branch Theatre.

In November 2013, Kabir was interviewed by Nadia Ali on BBC Asian Network.

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