Muneeb Ur Rehman

Muneeb ur Rehman, an Applied Practitioner, champions performance-for-all across diverse human contexts spanning education, corporations, hospitals, welfare and more. His visceral methods have empowered varied recipients, from corporate employees to school children, therapists to entrepreneurs, globally in places like South Asia, Europe, the US, South Africa and Singapore.

He has pioneered initiatives such as establishing Pakistan’s first theatre department in a Karachi secondary school, training Tibetan refugees in drama pedagogy in Nepal, and partnering with EDCAS PAF KIIT in technology for human-centred design. At National Incubation Centre and Habib University, he guided budding entrepreneurs, respectively, in employing embodied methods for personal vision exploration and user-centric appliance redesign. Apart from serving as faculty at Arts Council Theatre Academy, he also trains medical doctors at AKU in problem solving, collaboration and empathy through embodied methods.

A regular at international performance forums, his research on organic creative practices for community and organisational development was featured in ‘Theatre and Democracy’ (published by Norwegian University of Science and Technology and University of Witwatersrand) and in ‘Embodied Playwriting’ (published by Routledge press), where he melds psychotherapy frameworks with dramatic pedagogy to craft authentic characters in playwriting.