Satish Vasant Alekar (born 30 January 1949) is a Marathi playwright, actor, and theatre director.
A founder member of the Theatre Academy of Pune, and most known for his plays Mahanirvan (1974), Mahapoor (1975), Atirekee (1990), Pidhijat (2003), Mickey ani Memsahib (1973), and Begum Barve (1979), all of which he also directed for the Academy.
Today, along with Mahesh Elkunchwar and Vijay Tendulkar he is one of the most influential and progressive playwrights not just in modern Marathi theatre, but also larger modern Indian theatre.He has also remained the head of Centre for Performing Arts, University of Pune (1996–2009), which he founded, after forgoing the Directorship of NSD and previously remained an adjunct professor at various universities in US, at the Duke University, Durhum, NC (1994), Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University as a Fulbright Scholar (2003).
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He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Playwriting (Marathi) in 1994, by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama.
He received the award "Padamshree" (????????) conferred by the President of India in January 2012.
Since 2013 Satish Alekar is nominated by Savitribai Phule Pune University as Distinguished Professor on the campus.
Recently he is also known for his screen acting both in Marathi and Hindi feature films.
He is seen in the character roles of award winning films like Ventilator (2016).
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