Shridar Mani has spent the past decade working as a programmer and producer at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay and The Arts House Limited in music, dance, theatre and the literary arts. He has worked on festivals such as Kalaa Utsavam-Indian Festival of Arts, da:ns Festival and A Tapestry of Sacred Music at the Esplanade, and leads LumiNation at The Arts House. He is also the co-founder of local arts initiatives The Opera People and Other Tongues – A Festival of Minority Voices. He graduated from The University of Chicago with a Bachelors in Music (Hon.) where he was awarded the Leonard B. Meyer Prize for his undergraduate thesis and was a Jeff Metcalf Fellow with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2010-2011.