Yatrik, Delhi's first bi-lingual theatre group was founded in 1964 by Joy Michael, Roshan Seth, Sushma Seth, Nigam Prakash, Kusum Haidar, Rati Bartholomew, Sneih Das and Marcus Murch.
Joy Michael, Sushma Seth, Roshan Seth and a few others had been working together with Tom Noonan (the then Cultural-Attache at United States Information Service, Delhi) in a play, 'Abe Lincoln in Illinois'.
Noonan's retirement and the group's reluctance to disband led to the idea of 'Yatrik'.
Over the summer of 1963-64, individual members of the group contributed their personal resources, and staged plays in Nainital, Mussoorie, Dehradun earning a profit of Rs.
Other Directors include: Sabina Mehta Jaitly, Prakash Bhatia, Sunit Tandon, Avijit Dutt[6] Yatrik was launched with the performance of the Pulitzer Prize winning "All the King's Men" (by Robert Penn Warren) and was directed by Marcus Murch.