Iskandar is the Associate Director & Swing for My Neighbour Totoro (RSC / West End) and Joint Artistic Director of British East & Southeast Asian theatre company, Ellandar Productions. He is an award-winning playwright-director and movement director. 

THEATRE INCLUDES: As Director: Associate & Resident Director My Neighbour Totoro (RSC / West End); Impossible Homecoming (MAYK / Ginkgo Projects); The Lonesome Death of Eng Bunker (Omnibus Theatre); harmony. 天人合一 (York Theatre Royal / Pleasance); Turandot (Arcola / Grimeborn Opera Festival, Winner Off West End Awards, Best Opera Performance); Resident Director My Neighbour Totoro (RSC / Barbican).

As Movement Director: King Troll (The Fawn) (New Diorama / Kali Theatre, Finalist Off West End Awards Staging); The Real Ones (Bush Theatre); The Bleeding Tree (Southwark Playhouse); Liberation Squares (Nottingham Playhouse / Fifth Word); The Garden of Words (Park Theatre); Worth (New Earth / Chester Storyhouse / Arcola); A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (Barbican / Headlong); Blackout Songs (Hampstead Theatre, Nominated Olivier Awards Affiliate Theatre Production); Così fan tutte and Satyagraha (English National Opera / Improbable).

As Associate Movement Director: The Climbers (Theatre By The Lake).

As Resident and Dance Captain: How To Train Your Dragon: Live (DreamWorks SKG / Global Creatures).

As Puppeteer and Puppetry Direction: Gnomus (BBC Proms); Citizen Squid (Lyric Hammersmith / GDIF / Watford Palace); The Lips (UK Touring).