Aangan: South Asian Center for Art & Thought

General admission

Join us for a conversation with Shayok Misha Chowdhury, award-winning playwright and director of the acclaimed play, Public Obscenities! In Process With is Aangan’s conversation series where we dive into the creative process with artists who are working in the South Asian diaspora.  About the ArtistShayok Misha Chowdhury is a many-tentacled writer and director based in Brooklyn. A Mark O’Donnell Prize and Princess Grace Award recipient, Misha was an inaugural Project Number One Artist at Soho Rep, where his new play <a href="https://sohorep.org/excerpt-from-public-obscenities-by-shayok-misha-chowdhury">Public </a><a href="https://sohorep.org/shows/public-obscenities/">Obscenities</a> recently premiered, co-commissioned by NAATCO. The production, which Misha also directed, was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Misha was also awarded a Jonathan Larson Grant for his body of work writing musicals with composer Laura Grill Jaye; their most recent collaboration, How the White Girl Got Her Spots and Other 90s Trivia was awarded the 2022 Relentless Award. As a Resident Artist @ HERE Arts Center, Misha is developing Rheology, a concert-memoir-physics-symposium, for which he was awarded an inaugural Sundance Asian American Fellowship. Other collaborations: SPEECH (Philly Fringe) with Lightning Rod Special; Brother, Brother (New York Theatre Workshop) with Aleshea Harris; MukhAgni (Under the Radar @ The Public Theater) with Kameron Neal; Your Healing Is Killing Me (PlayMakers Rep) with Virginia Grise. Misha was also a soloist and collaborator on the Grammy-winning album Calling All Dawns.  Misha is the creator of <a href="https://vichitra.media/episodes">VICHITRA</a>, a series of sound-driven, cinematic experiments, including Englandbashi (Ann Arbor Film Festival); The Other Other (Ars Nova); An Anthology of Queer Dreams (Audio Unbound Award finalist); and In Order to Become (The Bushwick Starr), which he is developing into a live Carnatic opera. Misha is also an alumnus of New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellowship, The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group, Ars Nova’s Makers Lab, New York Stage and Film Nexus, the Sundance Art of Practice Fellowship, BRIClab, Drama League’s Next Stage Residency, and Soho Rep’s Writer Director Lab.

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Join us for a conversation with Shayok Misha Chowdhury, award-winning playwright and director of the acclaimed play, Public Obscenities! In Process With is Aangan’s conversation series where we dive into the creative process with artists who are working in the South Asian diaspora.  About the ArtistShayok Misha Chowdhury is a many-tentacled writer and director based in Brooklyn. A Mark O’Donnell Prize and Princess Grace Award recipient, Misha was an inaugural Project Number One Artist at Soho Rep, where his new play <a href="https://sohorep.org/excerpt-from-public-obscenities-by-shayok-misha-chowdhury">Public </a><a href="https://sohorep.org/shows/public-obscenities/">Obscenities</a> recently premiered, co-commissioned by NAATCO. The production, which Misha also directed, was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Misha was also awarded a Jonathan Larson Grant for his body of work writing musicals with composer Laura Grill Jaye; their most recent collaboration, How the White Girl Got Her Spots and Other 90s Trivia was awarded the 2022 Relentless Award. As a Resident Artist @ HERE Arts Center, Misha is developing Rheology, a concert-memoir-physics-symposium, for which he was awarded an inaugural Sundance Asian American Fellowship. Other collaborations: SPEECH (Philly Fringe) with Lightning Rod Special; Brother, Brother (New York Theatre Workshop) with Aleshea Harris; MukhAgni (Under the Radar @ The Public Theater) with Kameron Neal; Your Healing Is Killing Me (PlayMakers Rep) with Virginia Grise. Misha was also a soloist and collaborator on the Grammy-winning album Calling All Dawns.  Misha is the creator of <a href="https://vichitra.media/episodes">VICHITRA</a>, a series of sound-driven, cinematic experiments, including Englandbashi (Ann Arbor Film Festival); The Other Other (Ars Nova); An Anthology of Queer Dreams (Audio Unbound Award finalist); and In Order to Become (The Bushwick Starr), which he is developing into a live Carnatic opera. Misha is also an alumnus of New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellowship, The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group, Ars Nova’s Makers Lab, New York Stage and Film Nexus, the Sundance Art of Practice Fellowship, BRIClab, Drama League’s Next Stage Residency, and Soho Rep’s Writer Director Lab.

Aangan: South Asian Center for Art & Thought

In Process With Misha Chowdhury

50 W 17th St 12th floor

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US$30

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