Team

Founder and Artistic Director

Baan G Anirban Ghosh

• Musician, sound designer, producer, educator, sonic researcher
• Founder, Dastaan LIVE
• Founder, Dilli Improvisers Orchestra
• Managing Trustee, Aagaaz Theatre Trust
• Visiting Faculty, CEPT University (CEPT Excellence Award)
• Head of Sound, Film and Animation, UID Karnavati University
• Visiting Faculty, Ashoka University
• Guest Faculty, IIM Ahmedabad
• Visiting Faculty, IIAD

Baan G (Anirban Ghosh) is a New Delhi based musician, sound designer, producer, educator and sonic researcher with more than two decades in music, sound design, composition and production. He studied bass guitar with Gary Willis and Karl Peters and Indian classical music with Michael Harrison, and has performed and recorded with Grammy winners Ricky Kej, Pt. Rajendra Prasanna and Bernie Marsden, with Rabbi Shergill, the dancers Mandeep Raikhy and Navtej Singh Johar, Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust, Harkat Studios and the Khwaab Tanha Collective. He founded Dastaan LIVE, a political art-rock project, and the Dilli Improvisers Orchestra, India's first improvisers' orchestra, mentored by Raymond MacDonald of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. He is Managing Trustee of the Aagaaz Theatre Trust in Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti.

At W.I.P Labs he curates and produces W.I.P alt.FEST, more than 300 shows and 500 artists across 30 venues in Delhi and Bengaluru, as well as PORTALS at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Listening Otherwise, India's first conference on experimental and improvised music, and the programme at W.I.P aDDa. His sound work has been presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Edinburgh Fringe, Kampnagel in Hamburg, the International Theatre Festival of Kerala, the Jaipur Literature Festival, the Mahindra Kabira Festival, the Singapore Arts Festival, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, WORM in Rotterdam and LABOR Berlin. Recent work includes the sound design for two films in After Assembly: Constituting India (PACT, with SOAS, Oxford and York), the score for Mandeep Raikhy's Hallucinations of an Artifact with Jonathan O'Hear, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe, Orange Juice with Katkatha, and En Passant, a live chess and avant-garde music duo with the drummer Fidel Dely.

He teaches Critical Sound Design and Creative Music Exploration at Ashoka University and CEPT University, where he won the CEPT Excellence Award 2026, heads sound for film and animation at UID, Karnavati University, and has taught at IIAD and the Shri Ram Centre, and as guest faculty at IIM Ahmedabad. He has presented at Everyone Can Improvise at Kunst University Graz and the Graz Improv Festival 2026. With Elliot Cole (Juilliard / The New School) he is building an annotated translation of the Hindustani classical bandish repertoire, and he is designing the sound for four films directed by Naresh Saxena, on Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, Harbans Mukhia and Vinod Kumar Shukla. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Founding and Managing Partner, and Executive Director

Kirti Sharma

• Law, National Law University
• IP lawyer for artists and institutions
• Cleared the Indian Navy JAG examination
• Mahindra Sanatkada Festival, two editions
• 300+ programmes produced
• Teaches at CEPT University

Kirti is an arts producer and curator, and an intellectual property lawyer. She trained at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, cleared the Indian Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) examination, and worked as an associate at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Bharucha & Partners before moving into cultural production. Business came first: she worked in her father's printing business from a young age, learning the trade from the floor up, and later ran a bakery of her own.

As an IP lawyer she drafts intellectual property policies for universities and educational institutions, and advises artists, collectives and communities on their shows, rights and contracts. Few lawyers work where art, society and law meet. Her years of making and producing work give her a grasp of that ground that most of the profession does not have.

She worked on two editions of the Mahindra Sanatkada Lucknow Festival, leading national media and press. At W.I.P Labs she has programmed and produced more than 300 workshops, performances, talks and installations, 100+ film screenings and four festivals, and leads partnerships, contracts, operations and production, including the Creative Arts Exploration university programme, Gali Gali Cinema, WinterSKUL Majuli and Moving Otherwise, which she curates. She is part of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women programme at IIM Lucknow and was Teaching Associate for the Critical Sound studio at CEPT University.

Special Projects, and Space Manager at W.I.P aDDa

Parul Sood

• 8+ years in curation, production and venue operations
• Oddbird Theatre
• Bikaner House
• Bridge Bharat
• Sambhaavna Institute

Parul Sood is an arts and cultural programming professional who brings together creative vision and solid operational grit. With more than eight years leading curation, production and venue operations, Parul has a knack for building genuine, lasting relationships with artists and partners, and for turning them into community-driven cultural experiences. Their past institutional work includes Oddbird Theatre, Bikaner House, Bridge Bharat and the Sambhaavna Institute of Public Policy and Politics.

Parul now manages W.I.P aDDa, our studio in Lado Sarai, and oversees special projects for W.I.P Labs, including shows such as Modulated Movements.

Grants, writing, and Project Manager for Naya Canvas

Tanu

• NET-JRF qualified researcher
• 6+ years in culture and community programmes

Tanu is a feminist practitioner and researcher with more than six years across development, culture, field research and community programming. Her work sits where research, gender justice, culture and community meet. At W.I.P Labs she runs grants and writing, and manages Naya Canvas, our programme for schools, from the first call to the final impact report.

Project Manager, ART Immersion

Pallavi Verma

• B.E., NSIT
• MA Performance Practice, Ambedkar University
• Kathak, 9 years

Pallavi holds a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology and worked in the corporate sector before moving into performance. She trained in Kathak for nine years at Bharatiya Kala Kendra, is an empanelled Doordarshan Kathak artist, and holds a Master's in Performance Practice (Dance) from Ambedkar University Delhi. She has presented work at Serendipity Arts Festival, India Art Fair and the March Dance Festival, and was selected for the Kampnagel Dance Education Biennale in Hamburg. At W.I.P Labs she runs ART Immersion programmes from scoping to delivery.

Partner, W.I.P aDDa

Vaibhav Batra

• Sound artist and educator
• Psychopanda
• Dilli Improvisers Orchestra

Vaibhav is a sound artist and educator working with modular synthesis, field recording and deep listening, also known as Psychopanda. He was a founding member of the Dilli Improvisers Orchestra and later became its co-founder, and runs W.I.P aDDa jointly with W.I.P Labs.