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Deepa Purohit

DEEPA PUROHIT  

 Nationality:    Asian American
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Deepa Purohit is the Co-founder/Artistic Director of Rising Circle Theater Collective, a theater company devoted to telling the stories of people of color -www.risingcircle.org. Writing: Flight (in development), Exiled, LotusMart Ohio. With Sanjit De Silva: Grace  2010 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference Finalist/ 2010 Lark Play Development Center Playwrights Week finalist, American Family Project (2007), and Pulling the Lever (2004). Deepa has taught students from low income communities in New York City and beyond for over ten years. Teach For America Alumna (Baltimore 92) BA: Northwestern University. Masters in Public Health:Columbia University.

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

 American Family Project         Exiled         Flight         Lotusmart, Ohio         Pulling the Lever

American Family Project

Synopsis:
Family Project recounts, mostly in their own words, the comings of age of an adopted Korean American woman, two Black women of mixed ethnicities, a biracial Korean American woman who is the child of divorced parents, and an African American man raised by his mother. The play interweaves text from transcribed interviews, choreographed movement, soundscapes, and photo stills. Through American Family Project audiences are invited to reflect on the transformation and diversification of family life in the 21st century through the eyes of these five intriguing and real characters.
nytheatre.com

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written by Sanjit De Silva, Deepa Purohit And Rising Circle Theater Collective

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CSV Cultural Center    2007

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Exiled

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Flight

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Lotusmart, Ohio

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A comedic reading about two Indian "superheroes" that meet in a convenience store in mid-Ohio and plot to take over the world!
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Pulling the Lever

Deepa Purohit
A docuDrama gives voice to America's seldom-heard on the eve of the Election of 2004.

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written by Sanjit De Silva, Deepa Purohit And Rising Circle Theater Collective

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