C. Basavalingaiah (born 29 July 1958, India) is an Indian theatre director and theatre activist. He has been appointed as the first director of the National School of Drama Bangalore Centre. Prior to this Basavalingaiah has worked as Director of ‘Rangayana’ a dramatic academy in Mysore and also with the Regional Research Centre of NSD in Bangalore. He was involved in ‘Samudaya’ a street theatre movement. He directed several stage plays that received wide attention. He is an alumnus of the National School of Drama. He has directed many successful plays and has directed notable Kuvempu’s Malegalalli madumagalu. In this nine-hour long play, he made attempts to put Kuvempu’s 750-page novel, ‘Malegalalli madumagalu’, on stage is in indeed Kannada theatre’s most ambitious endeavour in a long tim