Yustiansyah Lesmana is a theatre director who lives and works in Jakarta. He has been involved in theatre since 2003 and began directing a theatre work in 2007. Since then, he has been working as a theatre director until now. He is awarded as the Best Director in several theatre festivals, including the National Student Theatre Festival in 2009, Jakarta Theatre Festival in 2011-2012 and 2013-2014. In 2014, he participated in a theatre work at the International Anti-Racist Festival (Imagine Festival) in Switzerland. From 2015 until 2017, Lesmana involved in various interdisciplinary collaborative works with artists from various regions in Indonesia. In the last November to December, he was invited by Asia Performing Arts Forum to collaborate in directing several actors from Asian countries. Lesmana is currently working with Teater Ghanta, where they are preparing two collaborative works including a (re-enactment) project that based on the audio archive of Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana's lecture in 1970 and a project with APAF 2018 at Tokyo Festival which will take place in October-November 2018.
Last Updated: 2018