Arpita Mukherjee is the Artistic Director of Congressional Award winning Hypokrit Theatre Company. Upcoming: Monsoon Wedding (Book Writer); Eh Dah? Questions for My Father (Director); Tamasha: A Festival for South Asian Performing Arts (Festival Chair) Recent: Monsoon Wedding the Musical - Berkeley Rep (Original Dramaturg, Associate Director), Queen – A Reading – Ma-Yi Theater Company (Director), Appeasing Radhika - Baruch College (Director), An Evening of Indian Classics at Theater for the New City (Director), Eh Dah? Questions for My Father – winner of Best Book - NYMF (Creative Producer), How to Succeed as an Ethnically Ambiguous Actor - PCTF (Writer, Director), Romeo and Juliet - the Access Theater (Director), My First Time – DC premiere (Director), How to Succeed as an Ethnically Ambiguous Actor – Castillo Theatre (Co-Writer/Creative Producer), Monsoon Wedding Concert in New York and India (Associate Director). Awards/Nominations: Best Book at NYMF, Nominated for Best Director - PCTF, Congressional Certificate - Hypokrit Theatre Company
The first page of the Seeing Place’s program for Othello, the opening play of their sixth season, states: “Othello is not just a ‘black’ play…it relates to all of us today, particularly in our current climate of strained Arab-American relations.” Wha …Read more