C. N. Sreekantan Nair was born on 31 March 1928 at Thiruvananthapuram in the south Indian state of Kerala to Madavoor S.Neelakanta Pillai and Madhavikutty Amma.

[1] Sreekantan Nair was married to Kanakangi Amma[3] and the couple has two children.Towards the later part of his life, he turned spiritual and was involved in the running of a press, Sreemudralayam, in Kottayam which was later shifted to Ernakulam.

[1] Sreekanatan Nair, whose body of work comprises 10 plays, 4 short story anthologies and a book of non-fiction,[4] is best known for his Ramayana-based trilogy,[5] Saketham, Lankalakshmi and Kanchana Sita.

[1] Nair, who experimented with stage direction and concepts of theatre,[9] co-founded Nataka Kalari, a Kollam-based forum for the promotion and practice of theatre; several known writers and artists such as M. Govindan, Ayyappa Panikkar, G. Aravindan, Kainikkara Kumara Pillai and G. Sankara Pillai were involved with the movement.

[14] Sreekantan Nair received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Drama in 1962 for the play, Kanchana Sita.