SUKANYA CHAKRABARTI Ph.D., (Dramaturg)  is an artist-scholar and Associate Professor at the Department of Film and Theatre, San Jose State University. She received her doctoral degree in Theater and Performance Studies from Stanford University; and previously worked at Florida State University and San Francisco State University.

Dr. Chakrabarti’s performance practice, scholarship and teaching lie in the intersection of postcolonial studies, globalization studies, and urban studies, with a focus on South Asian theatre and performance studies, transcultural theatre and performance, experimental devised performances and community-based performance-making. Author of In-Between Worlds: Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism, which examines the performance of Bauls, ‘folk’ performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses, she is currently working on her research project on performances of the South Asian diaspora across generations of immigration in California.

As an artist, she has worked as a playwright, director, dramaturg, and performer for South Asian theater companies in the Bay Area, Stanford University, Florida State University, and San Francisco State University. She has also collaborated with dance and movement artists, musicians and spoken-word artists in India and the US, for her devised and experimental performance projects. She worked as a Cultural Dramaturg for the Off-Broadway production, Public Obscenities, written and directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury, produced by Soho Repertory Theatre and NAATCO. More details about her project can be found on her website: www.sukanyac.com