Arpita Mukherjee

Arpita Mukherjee (she/her/hers) is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Hypokrit Theatre Company and the Festival Chair for Tamasha. Recent: Jump by Charly Evon Simpson (APAC), One Way by Ben Bonnema and Christopher Staskel (NAMT), The Golden Threshold by Cheeyang Ng and Eric Sorrels (Live & In Color), Strange Men by Will Snider (PlayPenn 2019), Citizen Scientist by CQ (Barrington Stage Company Playworks Weekend), Anon(ymous) by Naomi Iizuka (Iowa State University), Vietgone by Qui Nguyen (reading Song Collective), Eh Dah? Questions For My Father by Aya Aziz (Next Door @NYTW), and Elements of Change by Divya Mangwani (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, UNICEF). Upcoming: House of Joy by Madhuri Shekar (San Diego Rep), Tobias by Christina Quintana – CQ (WP Theater Pipeline Festival), Raisins not Virgins by Sharbari Ahmed (Next Door @NYTW). She is a 2019 – 2020 SDC Denham Fellow, a 2018 – 2020 Women’s Project Lab Member, 2018 Eugene O’ Neill National Directing Fellow, alumni of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a 2019 Mabou Mines Resident Artist and 2019-2020 LMCC Artist-in-Residence at Governors Island. Arpita is currently the book writer for Monsoon Wedding musical, opening in London summer 2020. “