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Dipika Guha Playwright

Act II / Plays

Plays and performance texts

Seven full length plays, a selection of short work, and new pieces shaped in rehearsal.

Line drawing of a script on a desk under a stage lamp
Desk copyWorks on paper

11 works shown

Full length plays

The Rules

Full length

A late arrival tests the private agreements that hold three friends together.

3W, 1MWorkshop development

Production notes

Developed in the Playwrights Horizons Superlab with Clubbed Thumb, and in the Old Vic New Voices workshop. A reading followed in the Resonance Theatre Summer Reading Series in 2014, directed by Michelle Tattenbaum.

I Enter the Valley

Full length

A study of authority, art, and the women who refuse to stay silent.

4W, 2MKilroys List, 2014

Production notes

Developed with the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Ars Nova Playgroup. The play was named to the first Kilroys List in 2014.

The Betrothed

Full length

A promised marriage becomes a collision between desire, age, and national myth.

3M, 1WTwo productions

Production notes

Produced at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and at Chester Theatre.

Passing

Full length

A colonial household discovers that distance from home is not distance from history.

2M, 3WFestival production

Production notes

Presented in the Risk is This festival at Cutting Ball Theater.

Herculine and Lola

Full length

A teenager abroad and a diary from another era ask what it means to be legible to oneself.

5W, 2MDevelopment

Production notes

Developed with Playwrights Foundation.

Blown Youth

Full length

A story about ambition, inheritance, and the parts a woman is told to want.

7WNew Georges and Barnard commission

Production notes

Directed by Alice Reagan, the play was commissioned by New Georges and Barnard and performed at New Georges in 2014.

The Art of Gaman

Full length

A story of displacement and reinvention in a city that would rather forget.

2W, 2MWorld premiere, 2014

Production notes

Premiered in Architecture of Becoming at the Women's Project in 2014, directed by Lauren Keating.

Short plays

A Brief History of America

One act

A short work for two women and one man, recognised by the Tobacco Factory Scriptspace in the United Kingdom.

2W, 1MScriptspace winner

An American Dream

Ten minute play

A compact work for one woman and two men, written for Old Vic New Voices.

1W, 2MOld Vic New Voices

In development

Mechanics of Love

In development

A new play shaped in Alaska and Seattle, then performed in New York.

DevelopmentINTAR, 2014

Production notes

Performed at INTAR's American Nightcap in 2014, directed by Tyne Rafaeli. Also developed in Seattle with Caitlin Sullivan, the Satori Group, and One Coast Collaboration.

Lifted

In development

A new play with illustrations, presented at New Georges.

IllustratedNew Georges, 2014

Production notes

Presented at New Georges on May 21 and 22, 2014, directed by Sarah Krohn, with illustrations by Jessica Tam.

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