Aditi Brennan Kapil – Playwright
Aditi is a writer, actress, and director. Her play Love Person (Stavis Playwriting Award in 2009), a four-part love story in Sanskrit, ASL and English, was developed during a Many Voices residency at the Playwrights’ Center, and produced in a NNPN rolling world première at Mixed Blood Theatre (MN), Marin Theater (CA), and Phoenix Theatre (IN), in the 2007/08 season.
Her play Agnes Under The Big Top, a tall tale was selected as a 2009 Distinguished New Play Development Project by the NEA New Play Development Program hosted by Arena Stage, and premièred at Mixed Blood Theatre and Long Wharf Theatre (CT) in 2011, and Borderlands Theater (AZ) in 2012 in a NNPN rolling world première. Her latest work, the Displaced Hindu Gods trilogy, consists of Brahman/i, a one-hijra stand-up comedy show, The Chronicles of Kalki, and Shiv.
The plays, based on the Hindu trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, premièred in repertory at Mixed Blood Theatre in October 2013. She is the Mellon Playwright-in-Residence at Mixed Blood Theatre, an Artistic Associate at Park Square Theatre, and a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis.
