Chanakya Vyas is a playwright, screenwriter, director and educator.
 
His plays for theatre include Tales of Kutty, Prelude, Mission Muthanallur, Algorithms and Age of Offence; adaptations include Jhund(Herd) based on Slawomir Mrozek's Striptease, Hamlets Live based on soliloquies of Hamlet.
 
In media, his recent work includes Once there was a Lake (an interactive game and audio series) and Phantom Head, a short student film project realized at the Prague Film School. 
 
His awards include the first runner-up at the Sultan Padamsee Playwriting Award and the Charles Wallace India Trust Award to study theatre in the UK. He has received grants from India Foundation for the Arts and Science Gallery Bengaluru to create works at the intersection of performance, technology and interactivity.