Shiv is an Associate Artist with Checkpoint Theatre.
Shiv has worked across film, television, and theatre as a writer and director. Shiv wrote and co-directed The Good, the Bad and the Sholay with Checkpoint Theatre for Kalaa Utsavam – Indian Festival of Art 2015. He also co-devised and co-directed #UnicornMoment in 2014.
Besides his work with Checkpoint Theatre, he was co-writer for Google Creative Lab Australia and Griffin Theatre Company’s transmedia experiment, The Next Stage (2014). Other credits include Payday (Actor), Club Desire (Actor), Normal (2015) (Assistant Director), and Mind Games (Director and Choreographer). More recently, Shiv’s play A Fistful of Rupees came second in the international Sultan Padamsee Playwriting Awards, and was staged at Prithivi Theatre (2023). Shiv is also the Founder of Castiko, and the writer-director-lyricist of And Now Live (2023), a drama audio series.