Thursday, January 31, 2013 An incredible surge of emotions choke me. My throat keeps gurgling, as if this mammoth lava of emotions is struggling to erupt through my lungs, through my windpipe, bringing forth all that has been building up inside for days. Unnamed emotions, unnamed worries, stress, pressure, I can go on, trying to name that unnameable ‘thing’. Language fails me. I’m mute. I’m crying. As I rush out of the library to avoid being seen, I sit right outside. It’s almost dusk. The sun has just set. The…
About Me
I am an artist-scholar and Associate Professor in Theatre Arts at the Department of Film and Theater, San Jose State University. I received my doctoral degree in Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford in June 2016. My dissertation, completed under the guidance of Dr. Jisha Menon, was awarded the Charles R. Lyons Memorial Prize for Outstanding Dissertation. My research project was supported by the Graduate Research Opportunities Award in Stanford, which facilitated my fieldwork in India and Bangladesh during the summer of 2013 and 2014; and the Wisch Fellowship by…
Workshop by Lois Weaver
November 2012 ‘Where do you come from?’ – I am rolling this question around in my mind, trying to remember where I come from. From Kolkata? From India? From Bangladesh? From homelessness? From an undefined state of nostalgia? As Lois Weaver introduced several questions for us to think about when we all sat around a circle, I realized we were going somewhere from ‘here’ – the present moment. Within the next few days, about fifteen of us were grouping and regrouping together, playing games, brainstorming ideas, creating rituals and performance…
Getting On, a Backstage Tour
Location: San Francisco Senior CenterDate / Time: September 14-17, 2012, 10:30pm-12:30pm This Open Theatre Workshop is run by internationally acclaimed Artists and Theatre Professors Lois Weaver (Queen Mary University of London), Helen Paris and Leslie Hill (Stanford University). ‘Getting On, a backstage tour’ is a two-part theatre workshop in which we play with notions of ‘age fright’ through metaphor of ‘stage fright’. We will work on creative responses to ageing and encouraging participants to embody, then narrate an experience of ‘backstage’ where we might find each other as we stand…
CRY 2012
Summer 2012 Performance workshop with the underprivileged children of Dhakuria, Kolkata Excerpt from Stanford | Center for South Asia Fellowship Recipients page | (link) This summer, my project is going to be similar to my previous volunteering activities with CRY (Child Relief and You, a non-profit organization, which works with and for underprivileged children) in Kolkata. I will be working with children from their organization, and will be conducting various performance workshops for them. These workshops will be in the form of games and exercises, which will be loosely based…
Curriculum vitae
Please view my Curriculum vitae below:Chakrabarti_CV
Paper on Jatra presented at PSi 18
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. June 28 – July 2, 2012. Paper: ‘Jatra: Performing Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Bengal’
Oedipus
Actor in Oedipus, Stanford Summer Theater Nitery Theater, Old Union, July – August 2011 Excerpt from Stanford Summer Theater (link) In 2011, Stanford Summer Theater (in collaboration Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program and Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts) presents our 13th season, the “Memory Play Festival.” We feature Seneca’s *Oedipus* in Ted Hughes powerful translation, directed by Matt Moore, with Matthew DiBiasio, Courtney Walsh, Tom Freeland, and Beth Deitchman. *Oedipus* plays Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 2 pm, July 28 – August 14, in the Nitery Theater, Old Union.…
Killer’s Head by Sam Shepard
Directed by Sukanya Chakrabarti Stanford Summer Theater 2011
Lord of the Meeting Rivers
Kolkata, India, June 2005 Actor in a short film A short film screened at Berlin Asia Pacific Film Festival Directed by Shantanu Trivedi