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ANITA CHANDWANEY
Nationality: USA
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Anita Chandwaney is an actress, playwright and director. Her first full-length play Gandhi Marg won 2nd place in the 75th annual Writers Digest Stage Play Competition. Its world premiere staged reading was produced by Chicago's Rasaka Theatre Company in December, 2003 and by Toronto's RasikArts in October, 2006. Of her short plays, Judging Jaya is part of "Desi Women of the Diaspora" at the 2007 Kriti Festival; and Success and the City was seen with the 24 Hour Project. She directed Rasaka's staged reading of Tanika Gupta's the Waiting Room and a staged reading of Gitanjali Kapila's screenplay Double Happiness, at Silk Road Theatre Project. as an actress she appeared the Pulitzer Finalist, Miss Witherspoon by Christopher Durang. In Chicago she's also worked with Lookingglass, Organic, Pegasus, Collaboraction, Live, Center Theatre and Rasaka - for which she was Founding executive Director and co-producer of the Jeff Citation-winning the MasrayanA. In NYC she worked with ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwright's Horizons and Open eye New Stagings. She's a 20 year working member of the American Federation of Television & Radio artists and the Screen actors Guild.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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2020 Gandhi Marg Helpline Instant Recall Secession Thirst2020
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Kali an South Asian American has never told her daughter Devi that her birth was due to an egg donor. Devi has brought her new boyfriend home - not realising he is her half brother
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Top of PageGandhi Marg
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Gandhi Marg is inspired by Tennessee Williams "a Streetcar Named Desire". all the characters' ancestry hails from India, except Vinod O'Doul, who is half-Irish. the action takes place in Shardul and Shanti's small one-bedroom on Chicago's Devon avenue, officially dubbed 'Gandhi Marg' by the City of Chicago. Shanti and Shardul are newlyweds deeply in love. Shanti's sister, Bina, arrives and the past charges into the present and affects the futures of everyone involved.
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Top of PageHelpline
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A young Asian American telephones a helpline. The helpline turns out to be in India. Talking to the helpline advisor it comes out that she is being forced by her husband and in-laws to have an abortion as she is expecting a girl
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Top of PageInstant Recall
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Madhu can't seem to recall why she asked Nigel to meet her at the cafe-or can she?
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Rasaka 2009
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Top of PageSecession
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On the eve of secession in South Carolina. Momma and her two daughters indentured servants to the Beauregard family. Momma tries to convince the girls they are in a good state but they are not convinced
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Top of PageThirst
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In an "untouchable" village in India water is in short supply. a young reporter investigates the water supply company. Things take a different turn when her sister disappears
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Written by Anita Chandwaney and M E H Lewis
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O'Neill Conference 2011
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