Writer, Director, Performer

Shayok Misha Chowdhury is an Obie and Whiting Award winning writer and director. His bilingual play, Public Obscenities (Soho Rep, NAATCO, Woolly Mammoth, TFANA) was one of three finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, a New York Times Critic's Pick, and named Best Theater of 2023 by the New Yorker. Misha is the recipient of a USA Fellowship, a Princess Grace Award, The Mark O’Donnell Prize, Drama Desk and Drama League nominations, a Jonathan Larson Grant, and the Relentless Award. Other favorite collabs: MukhAgni (Under the Radar) with Kameron Neal; Brother, Brother (New York Theatre Workshop) with Aleshea Harris; SPEECH (Philly Fringe) with Lightning Rod Special. Misha also collaborated on the Grammy-winning album Calling All Dawns. A two-time Sundance Fellow, Misha is the creator of VICHITRA, a series of short experimental films. A Fulbright and Kundiman fellow, his poetry has been published in The Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, Asian American Literary Review and elsewhere. Up next: Jordan Tannahill’s Prince Faggot (Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep) and a revival of Gospel at Colonus (Little Island).

Performer, Collaborator

Bulbul Chakraborty is a theoretical physicist, recognized for her contributions to soft condensed matter theory, studying systems far from equilibrium, such as granular materials, amorphous systems, and statistical physics. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a recipient of a Simons Fellowship. Born in India, Bulbul also grew up singing Rabindrasangeet: Bengali writer-composer Rabindranath Tagore’s repertoire of songs about the natural world. She has performed in concert with Misha at Lincoln Center and Little Island. An alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, Bulbul immigrated to the U.S. in 1974 to get her Ph.D from Stonybrook. She was the first tenured woman physicist at Brandeis University, where she is the Ancell Professor of Physics and former Head of the Division of Science. You are likely to find her singing loudly in her office.