SHAYOK MISHA CHOWDHURY.
award-winning, many-tentacled writer and director.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY.
Shayok Misha Chowdhury is a many-tentacled writer and director, born in India, based in Brooklyn. He directed the premiere of his playwriting debut, Public Obscenities (NYT Critic’s Pick; Soho Rep, NAATCO, Woolly Mammoth, TFANA), a bilingual play in Bangla and English, which was named one of three finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama and earned Misha a Whiting Award for writing and an Obie Award for directing. He recently wrote, directed, and performed in Rheology, a collaboration with his physicist mother (HERE Arts Center, Bushwick Starr, Ma-Yi, upcoming at Playwrights Horizons). He also directed Jordan Tannahill's Prince Faggot (NYT Critic’s Pick; Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Studio Seaview) and Jesse Eisenberg's The Ziegfield Files (Studio Seaview), and a revival of the musical, Gospel at Colonus (Little Island). Misha is also a recipient of The Relentless Award, The Mark O’Donnell Prize, a United States Artists Fellowship, a Princess Grace Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant, two Sundance fellowships, and a Fulbright Fellowship.
ARTIST INTERVIEW.
Stay tuned for the interview, to be released on May 4.
“I wanted to write a play about who gets to be an artist and who we see and who we don’t see, and visibility and invisibility. I wanted to contend with the fact that he had gifted me this dream as a kind of a mandate. He was like, “You’re an artist. Go make something of my dream.” I was interested in that moment more than the content of the dream itself.”
…directed by Chowdhury with a
SWOONING HYPNOTISM
reminiscent of the
BEST WORKS OF NEOREALISM
-THE NEW YORK TIMES
GALLERY.
Discover photos and videos from Misha's work.
CREDITS: PUBLIC OBSCENITIES, by Shayok Misha Chowdhury, photos by Julieta Cervantes; Headshot by Beowulf Sheehan; RHEAOLOGY by Shayok Misha Chowdhury, photos by Maria Baranova; Englandbashi (written and directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury, commissioned by and premiered online at HERE Arts Center, art direction and video by Kameron Neal; Gospel at Colonus, by Lee Breuer and Bob Telson, directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury, at Little Island, photo by Julieta Cervantes; Prince Faggot by Jordan Tannahill, directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury, photos by Marc J. Franklin , John McCrea as Prince George, Mihir Kumar as Dev Chatterjee, David Greenspan as Edward II.