Jashwant Thaker (5 May 1915 – 25 December 1990) was an Indian actor, playwright and director of Gujarati theatre.
His father's career as a city survey officer led him to take his primary education in Nadiad and Jamnagar.
[3] Thaker staged many Gujarati plays including Unda Andhare Thi, Dukhi no Beli, Mudrarakshas, Mushak ane Manushya.
After eighteen plays, he joined as head of the theater department of Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1950.
[2][4] Bhagat ni Samadhi, Matimathi Sonu, Rajiya Sulatana, Ganga Par Ek Rat are his famous plays.
[4] Natya Shikshn na Mool Tattvo (Basic Elements of Theatre Education) (1957), Natya Prayog Shilp (The Structure of Thearitical Experiments) (1959), and Loknatya ane Gamadun (Folk Theatre and Village) (1960) are his educational books.