Straight off the back Yamini Namjoshi says she has “one leg in visual arts and one in performing and I’m full time in both.” While she wishes she could just act, she knows she can’t live off theatre. “I don’t love shopping but I love decorating retail spaces. ” Though you might walk past a Yamini display window without recognising her work, you would certainly take notice of this powerhouse performer on stage, especially in the title role she played in Bansuri. Her portrayal of a modern-day woman coming to terms with herself was stellar. The J.B. Petit alumnus credits her acting chops to her principal who stressed the importance of the arts. “I played a ghost once in a school production where I tripped and eventually had to play the part without the white sheet!” Having worked previously with Rahul da Cunha, she is enjoying their latest venture, Me, Kash & Cruise, which is contemporary and dynamic and pans out as conversations between three friends. Yamini rues that we don’t have a strong theatre scene unlike shows abroad that run for years on end but remains positive. “If it’s happening in cinema, it’ll happen in theatre.”