Theater
Active involvement in theater production from the early 1980s to the mid-90s, in various capacities: performer, director, producer, trainer, dramaturge, and consultant.
Highlights include:
1994: Dramaturge for musical “The Window Man” at the One Dream Theater, New York City.
1991–1993: Visiting Artistic Consultant on Indian theater at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN, and Project Director for the Guthrie’s research, training, and production of Girish Karnad’s Nagamandala (1993).
1989–1990: Educational and Community Theatre Workshop Director, CIEFL, Hyderabad, India, and Performer with the Hyderabad Dramatics Club.
1985–1988: Artistic Director and Producer for THE PLAYERS Theatre Company and Director and Producer for the Miranda House Dramatics Society, both in New Delhi.
Plays Directed:
Bertolt Brecht’s Private Life of the Master Race, trans. Eric Bentley (from the Original German: Frucht und Elend des Tritten Reiches). With the Kirori Mal College Dramatic Society and Players Company in 1985-86. Production at AIFACS Hall, New Delhi, January 4-6, 1986.
Federico Garcia Lorca’s The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife (adapted by Sumitra Mukerji from English translation of original Spanish La Zapatera Prodigiosa). With the Miranda House Dramatics Society in 1987-88. Production at Miranda House College Auditorium, Delhi University, March 1988.
Plays, Assistant Direction:
Girish Karnad’s Nagamandala, directed by Garland Wright. With The Guthrie Theater Company. Produced and performed at The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN in March-April, 1993.
Beckett’s One Act Plays, directed by Alok Bhalla. With miscellaneous performers. Produced and performed at Max Mueller Bhawan, Hyderabad, India, April 1989, November 1989.
Kaufman & Hart’s, The Man Who Came To Dinner, directed by James Bjorkman. With the Hyderabad Dramatics Society in 1989. Produced and performed at the Hyderabad Dramatics Theatre, the American Studies Research Centre, and other venues in Hyderabad, India, July-October, 1989.
Vijay Tendulkar’s Anji, directed by Keval Arora. With the Kirori Mal College Dramatic Society and Players Company in 1985-86. Production in College Auditorium November 1985.
Joe Orton’s Funeral Games. With the Indrapastha College Dramatic Society in 1981. Performance at the B.I.T.S. Pilani Cultural Festival, Pilani, Rajasthan, India, in November 1981.
Numerous street plays, social consciousness raising performances with miscellaneous college, university, and other theater groups in Delhi through 1979-1987. Performances at different public venues in Delhi.
Plays performed in:
The Woman in Beckett’s Rockaby, directed by Alok Bhalla. Produced and performed at the Max Mueller Bhawan German Cultural Center in Hyderabad, India, in November 1989.
As the Jewish Wife in Brecht's Private Life of the Master Race, directed by Sumitra Mukerji, performed by THE PLAYERS theater group at Kirori Mal College and at AIFACS Auditorium, New Delhi, December 1985, January 1986.
Rosalind in Shakespeare’s As You Like It, directed by 1st year Literature students, incl. self, at English Department, Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi, performed in the open on College grounds 1979-80.
Various roles in school plays, house productions, theater workshops, during high school at Springdales School, New Delhi, 1977-79.
As the Sorceress (Good Witch) of the North in The Wizard of Oz, directed by Marcus Mirch. Loreto Convent, New Delhi. Produced and performed for the public at Kamani Auditorium in October-November 1975.
As Portia in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, directed by Ruth Joseph. Loreto Convent, New Delhi. 8th Grade school production in 1973.
As Radha’s Sakhi in Ras Lila dance-theater performance. The Chalet, Loreto Convent, Simla. 4th grade school production in 1969.