Maulikraj Shrimali (he/him) is a playwright, director, researcher and Dalit artist-activist from India. He is a third year PhD student in the Department of Performance Studies. He is a Protest song singer, Dafali (tambourine) player and Garba dancer. He has founded the Whistle Blower Theater Group, an Anti-caste theater company where he has written, directed, and performed anti caste, anti brahmanical patriarchy plays, that uses a variety of theatrical techniques to explore contemporary social and political issues in India. He is also co-founder-president of “Ambedkar-DuBois Society”. He graduated in Psychology, a Master’s in Development Communication from Gujarat University and a MPhil in Diaspora studies from the Central University of Gujarat.
