Director
PlayMakers: Debut. Shayok Misha Chowdhury is a Brooklyn-based director and theatre-maker, currently in residence at Ars Nova, Soho Rep, The Drama League, and The Flea, and was recently a Directing Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop. Upcoming: Beast Thing with Aleshea Harris (Drama League); Mac Wellman’s Bad Penny (The Flea); SPEECH with Scott Sheppard (Playwrights Horizons Theater School); rasgos asiaticos with Virginia Grise (CalArts Center for New Performance). Recent: MukhAgni with Kameron Neal (Ars Nova); How the White Girl Got Her Spots and Other 90s Trivia with Laura Grill (Ars Nova’s ANT Fest); Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (Williams College); Cherríe Moraga’s The Mathematics of Love (Stanford University); Nia Witherspoon’s The Messiah Complex (HERE Arts Center). Misha was featured on the Grammy-winning album Calling All Dawns, and his poetry has been published in The Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, Asian American Literary Review, and elsewhere. He is on faculty at Williams College.