Yuki Ellias is an actor, theatre- director and corporate coach. She trained at the Jacques Lecoq School of Theatre in Paris and is a trained pedagogue from the London International School of Performing Arts. As an actress, she has performed in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, Italy and India. Her theatre company Dur Se Brothers has produced the multi-award winning play Elephant in the Room, Hello Farmaaish, Yatagarasu and Basti Mein Masti. Her one-woman show Elephant in the Room has traveled to the Edinburg Fringe Festival, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Perth and Hong Kong. She endeavours to make theatre for diverse spaces and diverse audiences, creating original scripts and rebooting how we interpret the potential of the female actor and how we write female parts. She recently co-curated a seminar series on “Copyrights and Ethics- Best Practices for Professional Theatre-artists.” As a corporate coach she delivers high impact communication training programs for various organisations across the country. She has been invited to give a Ted Talk with her father on the ‘Fine Art of Losing Money – why invest in creative pursuits.’