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Dipika Guha

DIPIKA GUHA

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Bret Adams Ltd  

Dipika Guha was born in Calcutta and raised in tea drinking countries. Her plays include I ENTER the VALLEY (Weissberger nom '14), MECHANICS of LOVE (Drama League Directorsfest, Roundabout Underground Reading Series), BLOWN YOUTH (New Georges/Barnard) and THE RULES (Upcoming: San Francisco Playhouse). She is the inaugural Shakespeare's Sister Fellow, a former Dramatists Guild Fellow, a Time Warner Fellow at the Women's Project Lab & Ars Nova Playgroup. Her work has been developed at OSF, Playwrights Horizons, Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival, Judson Church, One Coast Collaboration and the Tobacco Factory (UK) amongst others. BA: English Literature (UCL) MFA Playwriting (Yale School of Drama) under Paula Vogel. Current work in progress: UNRELIABLE through the Soho Rep Writer Director Lab, LIFTED with New Georges and human rights commissions from Yale Law School and Mo-olelo Theatre. Despite a long run in the North East of the United States she still drinks tea.

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below is a list of Dipika Guha's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         American Dream, An         Betrothed, The         Blown Youth         Brief History Of America, A         Elsinore         Habeas Corpus         Herculine And Lola         I Enter The Valley         In The Red, White, And Blue         Lifted         Mechanics Of Love         Passing         Rules, The         State Of Affairs         Unreliable
American Dream, An

Synopsis:
Seb meets the hyacinth girl', a young mysterious woman in Venice Beach and unbeknownst to her, follows her to London. In London he is persuaded by landlord Fes to do a Dustin Hoffman and dress up like a woman to win her love. AN AMERICAN DREAM is a verse comedy inspired by T.S Eliot's The Wasteland'.

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Old Vic New Voices, TS Elliot Award

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ten min play

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Betrothed, The

Synopsis:
a young American man arrived in an eastern european country to meet his betrothed. He is shocked to find she is an ancient crone. She insists that she is the young woman he is betrothed to - but that she has aged over night because she was anxious about their meeting. Shocked by her sexual advances he kills her

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What Harbour Stage, Wellfleet, Ma     07 Aug 2011

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Blown Youth

Synopsis:
All Celia wants is to play a great role. But unlike Hamlet, there isn't one for her to inherit. Despite her sophisticated education and commitment to helping other women, somehow Celia -- like her counterpart -- cannot act. Still, it seems that her consciousness doesn't only lie inside her. It seeds and sprouts amidst her twenty-first century kinships: her friends. Inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, Blown Youth asks what happens to the universe when a woman is at its center.

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New Georges/Barnard

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New Georges/Barnard    

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Playscripts, Inc   

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Drama Comedy 80 min

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Brief History Of America, A

Synopsis:
Sarah and Roberto are in love. But between them stand the obstacles of time, geography and their own personal histories. A rapid series of snapshots in time creates a deeply intimate and personal narrative. A Brief History of America is a play about loss and the true meaning of home.

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The Samuel French staff would like to congratulate the 30 playwrights selected to participate in the 40th Annual Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival! Chosen from nearly fifteen-hundred submissions (a record breaking number) both in the U.S. and abroad, these 30 plays will be presented in New York from August 3  9, 2015. Out of these plays, six winners will be selected by the Samuel French, Inc. editorial staff to receive publication and licensing contracts.

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40th Annual Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, NY     03 Aug 2015

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short play

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Elsinore

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In ellsinore Hilde commits an unspeakable act to break free of her family

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Habeas Corpus

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Herculine And Lola

Synopsis:
While vacationing in Amsterdam, American teenager Lola begins to hallucinate. A century earlier, frustrated and misunderstood, schoolteacher Herculine Barbin retreats into a solitary white room. HERCULINE and LOLA is a story about two people united by the power of their imagination and by love. It is inspired by the Diary of the first true hermaphrodite' Herculine Barbin.

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I Enter The Valley

Synopsis:
Beloved national poet Augusto Real has not written a scrap for seven years. What's more, he's been incredibly happy. Or has he? In the twilight of his life, his once quiet house is flooded with the voices of women who descend upon the valley. They upset him, shatter his peace and in the noise something unspoken begins to stir in them all. . . I ENTER THE VALLEY is a play about the nature of power, creativity and female friendship inspired by the life of Pablo Neruda.

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Weissberger nom '14

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In The Red, White, And Blue

Synopsis:
Charlotte and Sophie Trowbridge have not seen each other in two years. Mother and daughter meet on a cold winter's night in a glass enclosed restaurant where they fight for the survival for their relationship. IN THE RED, WHITE and BLUE is a ten minute tragi-comedy.

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Heideman Award Finalist

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Lifted

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with New Professional Theatre

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Mechanics Of Love

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Drama League Directorsfest, Roundabout Underground Reading Series

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Passing

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On an imagined island, ill-matched, British expats Clara and Sidney live isolated from the indiginous population. That is, until a young girl, bloody and brutalised appears on their property. PASSING is a poetic and impressionistic confrontation with the history of colonialism, chronicling a history that resists erasure.

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Rules, The

Synopsis:
Ana has a loving relationship with her childhood friends Julia and Mehr. That is, until a brooding stranger named Valmont with a mysterious resemblance to Colin Firth and a strange addiction problem comes to town. Now Ana must examine the unwritten rules of their friendship and the near invisible laws that govern how the women see themselves. THE RULES is a late coming of age story.

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SuperLab Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb, Joust Theatre    

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State Of Affairs

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a woman takes over in a post apocalyptic world in which women are kept in place by harsh laws

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Drama

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Unreliable

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through the Soho Rep Writer Director Lab

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