Armed with theatre-training since childood and an MA in Comprarative Literature, Suman has directed productions ranging from European drama to major adaptations of Bengali masterpieces. Among these are Teesta Paarer Brittanto (Tales of the River Teesta, adapted from a novel by Debesh Roy) and Mephisto, based on Klaus Mann’s German novel, Ariane Mnouchkine's stage adapatation and Istvan Szabo’s film version of it. While Teesta... has become one of the most celebrated productions in modern Indian theatre, Mephisto was staged in protest against the religious riots of 2002 that led to a state-supported genocide of thousands of Muslims in Gujarat. In the USA, he has directed Brecht’s Measures Taken at Barnard College (Columbia Univeristy) and Girish Karnad's Nagamandala (Play with Cobra) at Kalamazoo College. In 2005, Suman completed his first feature film, Herbert, based on a novel of the same title by Nabarun Bhattacharya, which has been screened at various international venues like Cannes, Florence, Bangkok, etc. and has won a number of awards, including the Best Regional Film from the Government of India for 2005. In 2008, he completed his second feature film based on Rabindranath Tagore’s novel, Chaturanga (Four Chapters) which is being screened at several international festivals. Suman is the Artistic Director of Tritiya Sutra Performance Company in Calcutta for whom he has directed Kangal Malsat (Beggar’s Conference), based on a novel by Nabarun Bhattacharya, and more recently Agun Mukho, an adaptation of the German playwright, Marius von Mayenburg’s Feuergesicht. Man of the Heart is the only bilingual solo-performance Suman has directed. Please visit Suman's website for more information.