Towards the end of his last year at Loyola, Mazumdar joined Janet Barkhouse, Jordan Deitcher and Sharron Wall in founding Raven Productions, which over a period of two years presented Shakespeare, Wilde, Coward and Beckett in both traditional venues and as "Salon Theatre" around Montreal. Their 1973 production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, in which Mazumdar played Martha as a man, gained international notoriety after its closing by the author was written about in the New York Times and elsewhere. Later, Mazumdar co-founded the now-defunct Phoenix Theatre in Montreal. The theatre was intended for
English productions. While at Phoenix, he directed and acted in his own works, as well as works by
Noël Coward. It was while at Phoenix, that he wrote
Oscar Remembered, a two-act play that examined the friendship between
Oscar Wilde and
Lord Alfred Douglas. He performed his monologue across the US and Canada, including at the
Stratford Festival. After leaving the Phoenix Theatre, he continued to write and direct his own plays, including
Rimbaud and
Dance for Gods. His works explored various aspects of
gay history. Over the next nine years, Mazumdar served as artistic director to the festival. During this time, he led the production of several performances in collaboration with
director Edmund MacLean and executive producer Cheryl Stagg. Notable productions included
Macbeth,
Jesus Christ Superstar,
The Man Who Came To Dinner, and
Cyrano de Bergerac. Mazumdar united once again with director Jordan Deitcher for two shows in New York City, playing King Lear in Raven's 1984 production at the Park Royal Theatre, and writing and appearing in the 1985 Off-Broadway world premiere of The Bentley Variations (aka Unholy Trinity), a cabaret about the role and treatment of the visionary in society, based on the works of Eric Bentley. == Death ==