January 19-21, 2018, Z Space, San Francisco CA. March 23-24, 2018, Hammer Theatre Center, San Jose CA. Written by – Salil Singh with story development by Anurag Wahehra Direction by – Salil Singh Dramaturgy – Sukanya Chakrabarti Interview on KAW – Local Public Radio (91.7FM) (link) From the Event page (link) Dance and Music Director by – Farah Yasmeen Shaikh Music Composer by – Raaginder Singh Momi Visual Designer by – David Murakami Head of Production by – Vinita Sud Belani FACING OUR HISTORY FACING OURSELVES. A retrospective lens into…
Ramayana
Directed by Sukanya Chakrabarti, Anne Yumi Kobori, from a script by Anthony Clarvoe. Oct 13 at 7:30pm; Oct 14 at 4:00pm; Oct 15 at 2:00pm. Quinlan Community Center, Cupertino Produced by SF Shakes and EnActe Arts This fall semester, SF Shakes partners with EnActe Arts and the City of Cupertino for the first time to create a youth production. Students ages 8-18 will join with professional theater artists to tell the action-packed epic Ramayana, following Prince Rama on his quest to battle the Demon King Ravana. Flying monkeys, princesses, monsters,…
Children’s Radio Play on Radio Zindagi
Directed by Sukanya Chakrabarti Radio Zindagi, 1550 AM. Every Saturday, 11:00am. Popular Indian folk talks adapted for US audiences; acting by kids aged 8-12. Produced by EnActe Arts (link)
Sacred Singing: A Baul Performance by Parvathy Baul
Performance by Parvathy Baul, Moderator – Sukanya Chakrabarti, April 13, 2017 – UC Berkeley Panel Discussion, April 15, 2017 – Stanford University Event information The Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley proudly present an evening with Parvathy Baul, Baul folk singer, musician and storyteller from Bengal.
Soundwaves
April 7-9, 2017, DeAnza Performing Arts Center, Cupertino CA. Written by – Joseph Martin Direction by – Vinita Belani Dramaturgy – Sukanya Chakrabarti From the Event page (link)… Soundwaves is the incredible true story of Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim Indian living in Paris who became the first female radio operator during the Second World War. Trained by Britain as an Allied Special Operations Executive and sent into occupied France, she worked behind enemy lines but was betrayed by a friend, tortured and shot in Dachau on September 13th, 1944.…
Scholar Maker Conference for Future Theatre Faculty
Invited to participate in the conference at Reed College January 2017, Reed College in Portland, Oregon
Democratically Speaking
Sukanya Chakrabarti, Performer October 20-22, 2016. Pigott Theater, Stanford, CA. Event Listing on Facebook (link) A co-production of SRT, Ethics in Society, Stanford Peace + Justice Studies Initiative, and TAPS, “Democratically Speaking” explores the idea and realities of “democracy,” from ancient Greece to the Occupy Movement. A timely exploration of “people power” (the root meaning of demos + kratos), :Democratically Speaking” offers a compelling challenge to all of us in this important US election year. Conceptualized by: Rush RehmDirected by: Lindsey Grzenczyk Mantoan
Conference of the Birds
September 9-11, 2016, Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose, CA. Sukanya Chakrabarti, Actor and Dancer From the Facebook Event page (link)… Thirty artists representing ten dance traditions spanning four continents feature in a vibrant, multi-sensory interpretation of the timeless Sufi quest narrative – The Conference of the Birds. EnActe Arts and Sangam Arts present a contemporary interpretation of the 12th century Persian poet Farid Attar’s magnum opus – an inspirational parable about the painful but beautiful human journey towards understanding. Hoopoe the wise one calls for a conference of hundreds of…
Doctorate Completed, TAPS, Stanford University
Awarded the Charles R. Lyons Memorial Prize for Outstanding Dissertation June 12, 2016, Stanford University Commencement, June 12, 2016 Dissertation Defense, May 20, 2016
Session with Ms. Navi Pillay
Ms. Navi Pillay served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008-2014. May 2015, Stanford Faculty Club, Gold Room Reflections When I realized I was assigned a seat at the table where Navi Pillay would be sitting, I was both excited and intimidated at the same time. I did not know how approachable, friendly and ‘human’ she is till we started talking – first about my research and interests, then about her childhood, growing up as a South African in a Tamil household, while being recognized and…