The National Academy of Performing Arts ( ur, ; abbreviated as NAPA) is a performing arts school located at Hindu Gymkhana in

Karachi Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former c ...

, Sindh,

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...

. NAPA was established in 2005 as an institution to conserve and teach performing arts and music.

Departments

; Music : At NAPA, the students of music derive benefit from being taught by a faculty consisting of practicing musicians, musicologists and visiting maestros. They will also have the opportunity to enrich their repertoire of compositions and styles by tutelage under many teachers.5 reasons to attend NAPA International Theatre and Music Festival 2017
Dawn (newspaper), Published 15 March 2017, Retrieved 7 February 2018 ; Theatres Arts : The Theatre Arts department will offer students academic courses in all aspects of the theatre as well as practical exploration and the opportunity to present their work before an audience. ; ; Make up : NAPA has also introduced lessons in Make up.

Faculty

Chairman

Zia Mohyeddin Zia Mohyeddin (; born 20 June 1931) is a British-Pakistani actor, producer, director and television broadcaster who has appeared in both Pakistani cinema and television as well as in British cinema and television throughout his career. Zia ...

is the current Chairman of NAPA. He was asked by

Pervez Musharraf General Pervez Musharraf ( ur, , Parvez Muśharraf; born 11 August 1943) is a former Pakistani politician and four-star general of the Pakistan Army who became the tenth president of Pakistan after the successful military takeover of t ...

, then the President of Pakistan, to establish and lead a national institution for arts and music. Besides being the founder and chairman of NAPA, he has impeccable credentials. Trained at the

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Senat ...

, he has spent a lifetime dedicated to the theatre, films and television, appearing in many local and foreign productions. He has also performed in numerous

Broadway Broadway may refer to: Theatre * Broadway Theatre (disambiguation) * Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. ** Broadway (Manhattan), the street **Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...

and West End plays. He has also produced and directed extensively.

Notable teachers

Arshad Mehmood, Director Programmes and Administration. Besides Mohyeddin and Mahmud, NAPA has some of the most well known theatre icons and teacher-performances in

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an are ...

, including: * Talat Hussain * Head of Department Theatre Studies, curriculum consultant and founder of Napa Repertory Theatre Rahat Kazmi is the *

Khalid Ahmed Khalid Ahmed ( ur, خالد احمد) is a Pakistani TV director, producer and actor. He currently teaches theatre at National Academy of Performing Arts.(Rafay MahmoodKhalid Ahmed presents double bill at NAPA (National Academy of Performing A ...

(acting teacher)NAPA inaugurates new Basement Playhouse
The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 31 January 2017, Retrieved 7 February 2018 * Nafees Ahmad (sitar teacher)NAPA music festival gets under way
Dawn (newspaper), Updated 27 February 2015, Retrieved 7 February 2018 * Bashir Khan (tabla teacher) * Salamat Hussain (Flute Teacher) * Arsalan Pareyal (Guitar Teacher) * Shehzad Ghias Shaikh *

Alumni

* Ahsan Shabbir, 1st Batch Singer and composer * Araslan Pareyal, 5th Batch guitarist and composer *

Saqib Khan Saqib is the Persian pronunciation originally from the Arabic name, Thaqib (ثاقب ''thāqib''), is a masculine given name which means "influential notion of the well-chosen, the truthful". Notable people with this name include: * Saqib Ali (bor ...

1st batch theater arts * Fawad Khan 1st batch theater arts *Faisal Malik 1st batch theater arts * Ali Rizvi 1st batch theater arts * Akbar Islam 1st batch theater arts * Ather Abbas 1st batch theater arts * Paras Masroor 1st batch theater arts * Maria Rabab 1st batch theater arts * Rabab Hashim 1st batch theater arts * Kashif Farhad 1st batch theater arts * Mohsin Ali Shah 1st batch theater arts * Farhan Shah 1st batch theater arts * Aiman Tariq 1st batch theater arts * Uroosa Siddiqi 1st batch theater arts * Late Mohammad Saim 1st batch theater arts * Fiza Zehra 1st batch theater arts *

late Riaz Late may refer to: * LATE, an acronym which could stand for: ** Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, a proposed form of dementia ** Local-authority trading enterprise, a New Zealand business law ** Local average treatment effect, ...

1st batch theater arts * Zeeshan Haider Nalwala 1st batch theater arts * Syed Meesam Nazar Naqvi 2nd batch theater arts

Relocation

In December 2018, The

Supreme Court of Pakistan The Supreme Court of Pakistan ( ur, ; ''Adālat-e-Uzma Pākistān'') is the apex court in the judicial hierarchy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Established in accordance to thePart VIIof the Constitution of Pakistan, it has ultimate a ...

had directed the Sindh government to shift NAPA to another location from this Hindu Gymkhana building but, as of 11 February 2020, compliance to this directive could not be made and NAPA was still functioning there.

References

External links

National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA)
{{DEFAULTSORT:National Academy of Performing Arts 2005 establishments in Pakistan Pakistan federal departments and agencies Universities and colleges in Karachi Art schools in Pakistan Dance schools in Pakistan Film schools in Pakistan Music schools in Pakistan Arts in Pakistan Buildings and structures in Karachi British colonial architecture