Nisha Madhan (NZ/India) is the artistic director of The Town Centre, a theatre cult that is dedicated to mining the social potential of performance. She is a producer of independent theatre having worked with Vitamin S, The Dust Palace and Theatre Beating. As a dramaturg with particular approaches to participation she has worked with The Playground Collective, Pressure Point Collective and Vibracorp Productions. She is sometimes described as scary, intense, and as someone who can drink a Finnish man under the table.