Brijeshwar Singh

Brijeshwar Singh (born 22 September 1968), is a writer, poet and theatre promoter based in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India. His patronage and promotion of theatre through the Rang Vinayak Rang Mandal theatre repertoire and the annual theatre festival being organized in his own Windermere Theatre earned him the U.P. Sangeet Natak Academy award for 2020. His Daya Drishti Charitable Trust helps children born with thalassemia avail regular and lifesaving transfusions. Later, his father was transferred to Bareilly where Brijeshwar studied at Government Inter College (GIC). He completed his higher studies from King George's Medical College (now known as King George's Medical University), Lucknow and Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College (GSVM), Kanpur. The auditorium is called Windermere Theatre.

Brijeshwar Singh is the organizer of the Annual Windermere Theatre Festival at Bareilly. He has organized 15 editions of the festival.

The latest edition of the festival was organized as 'Windermere Theatre Festival & Awards 2025' from 23 February to 1 March 2025 at the Windermere Theatre in Bareilly. This edition opened with "Traasadi" - an invited play by renowned film and theatre personality Manav Kaul. It was followed by 'Avalanche' by The Gathered, "Raghunath" by Abhimukh, Notunor Naatghor from Assam. The third day witnessed two plays; the first one titled "Desdemona Roopakam" by Nalanda Arts Studio, Bengaluru and the second one titled "Be-Loved" by Tamaasha Theatre, Mumbai. It was followed by "Mehroon" by Ujaagar Dramatic Association, Jaipur on 27 February and "Agarbatti" by Samaagam Rangmandal, Jabalpur on 28 February. The last evening of the festival witnessed a gripping performance of "Urmila" by Adishakti, Puducherry.

Brijeshwar's patronage and promotion of theatre earned him the U.P. Sangeet Natak Akademi award for 2020. The felicitation ceremony was held at the Gandhi Auditorium of the Raj Bhawan in Lucknow.

Dr. Brijeshwar Singh was nominated for the prestigious Padma Shri Award for two consecutive years in 2023 and 2024 under the ‘Theatre sub-category of Art Category’.

Playwright, Author & Poet

Brijeshwar wrote his first book, In & Out of Theatre: Heart-Warming Vignettes from Beyond the Operation Theatre, in 2014. The book was published by Supernova Publishers. Which was published on 26 March 2022. His story, "Keh do Gunjan!" was published in India Todays annual literature edition, 2019.

Philanthropy

Brijeshwar Singh founded Daya Drishti Charitable Trust. The charitable organization helps children born with thalassemia avail regular and lifesaving transfusions. Brijeshwar Singh has also been providing expert advice on major incidents related to thalassemia. Recently, he talked to an online media platform regarding the Nagpur (Maharashtra, India) incident where four thalassemic kids got infected with HIV because of unsafe blood transfusion.