Overview

World Premiere Production at Soho Rep:Public Obscenitiespremiered at acclaimed theater Soho Rep in New York City in the spring of 2023, where it enjoyed an extended, sold-out run. Best of Spring 2023:Named one ofTime OutNew York's ""30 Best Off-Broadway shows to see in Spring 2023"". Bilingual Play:The text ofPublic Obscenitiesswitches back and forth between the English and Bangla languages, immersing the audience and reader deeply in the multicultural world of the play. In performance, much, but not all, of the Bangla dialogue is translated into English in projected supertitles. Awards for Shayok Misha Chowdhury:Chowdhury was awarded the Relentless Award by the American Playwriting Foundation and the Jonathan Larson Grant by American Theatre Wing for his musicals written with composer Laura Grill Jaye. Institutional Affiliations: Chowdbury has taught and directed at Stanford, Brown, NYU, CalArts, Fordham, Syracuse, UArts, Hunter College, CMU, and Williams. Upcoming Major Productions:The Soho Rep production ofPublic Obscenitieswill move to DC's Woolly Mammoth in Fall of 2023 before returning for another run in NYC at Theatre for a New Audience.

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"""It is a testament to Shayok Misha Chowdhury's gifts as a writer that he is able to evoke as many themes, histories and possibilities as he does in Public Obscenities, and leave his audience not dazed or frustrated, but longing for even more... Chowdhury is a writer with great promise who, with Public Obscenities, may have found himself on the brink of greatness.."" --New York Times ""An absolute stunner."" --The Wrap ""One can walk away from Public Obscenities having experienced it not as a story but as the everyday texture of the characters' lives, and the thick tapestry of themes that Chowdhury weaves around them-- - about the difficulty of communicating and of love, about the struggles to overcome strictures of caste and gender and sexuality, about memory and loss, longing and belonging."" --New York Theater"

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Shayok Misha Chowdhuryis a writer and director based in Brooklyn. His playPublic Obscenities, which he also directed, premiered in the spring of 2023 at Soho Rep in a co-commission with NAATCO. Misha was also awarded a Jonathan Larson Grant for his body of work writing musicals with composer Laura Grill Jaye; their most recent collaboration,How the White Girl Got Her Spots and Other 90s Triviawas awarded the 2022 Relentless Award. Chowdhury is the creator ofVICHITRA, a series of sound-driven, cinematic experiments, includingEnglandbashi,The Other Other,An Anthology of Queer Dreams,andIn Order to Become, which he is developing into a live Carnatic opera. and elsewhere. He has taught and directed at Stanford University, Brown University, New York University, California Institute of the Arts, Fordham University, Syracuse University, University of the Arts, Hunter College, Carnegie-Mellon University, and Williams College.

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