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…
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…
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