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IAAC - Lark Playwrights' Week Closing Night
SOUTH ASIAN SAMPLER: October 1st, 2007 |
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Sarovar Banka is a playwright and filmmaker based in the Philadelphia area. Full length plays: "Ashes" produced at Rights and Reasons Theatre in Providence, R.I. (2000), "The Moral Implication of Time Travel" received Weston Award for best undergraduate play at Brown University, workshopped at the Lark Theatre as part of the Indian Diaspora Playwrights Festival (2002). One acts:" The Only Surviving Heir of Once Great Maharaja" produced in Despina Production's Seven-Eleven series at the Lower Tenement Theatre (2003), "The End of Apurnas" commissioned and produced by Rasa Productions at Theatre Row Studios (2003), A Play for My Dentist" Hard Lemonade Reading Series at the Asian American Writers Workshop (2004). Wrote, produced, and directed a short film "Edgar" selected by The Rhode Island International Film Festival and The Rome International Film Festival (2005). Member of the Lincoln Center Director's Laboratory, as a writer, 2007. Currently working on another full length play, Jetlag, and several feature film projects. |
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| Aasif' Mandvi's New York stage credits include; his critically acclaimed One- Man Show Sakina's Restaurant (OBIE Award), the Broadway revival of Oklahoma!, Homebody/Kabul at B.A.M, Trudy Blue, Death Defying Acts, The Brave, Suburbia, Einstein's Gift and the political docudrama; Guantanamo; Honor Bound to Defend Freedom. Regional credits include; The Steppenwolf Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum, The Bush Theatre in London, and The Williamstown Theatre Festival. Some film and television credits include; the title role in Merchant-Ivory Films The Mystic Masseur, Spider-man 2, Music and Lyrics, The Siege, Analyze This, Random Hearts, Freedomland, Eddie, Die Hard 3, ABCD, American Chai, Undermind, The War Within, Sorry Haters, Jericho, E.R, The Soprano's, Sex and the City, Oz, CSI, Law and Order, Ed, Nash Bridges, The Bedford Diaries, Tanner on Tanner and the upcoming films; Pretty Bird, The Understudy and Eavesdrop. Aasif is also a correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. |
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| Sonia Pabley's play SEX IN OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES was an IAAC South Asian Playwrights Festival selection and received a Lark Barebones production. She graduated from Columbia University and works in the publishing, theatre, and film industries. |
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| Anuvab Pal's plays include Chaos Theory (Finalist- BBC World Playwriting Competition 2007, Alter Ego Productions, SALAAM Theatre, Producers Club, Here Theatre, 78 th Street Theatre Lab, American Theatre of Actors, American Place Theatre, Greenwich Street Theatre- all in NYC, ArtWallah Festival- Los Angeles, Georgetown University, STAGE festival-Washington DC, Edward Albee Theatre Festival- Alaska, Rasik Arts- Toronto), Out of Fashion (Asian-American Writers Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Source- in NYC, Edward Albee Theatre Festival - Alaska), Life, Love and EBITDA (Lark Theatre-South Asian Diaspora Festival 2003, Epic Theatre - in NYC, Finalist-Playwrights Center/Guthrie Theatre- Minnesota, Artwallah Festival-Los Angeles), FATWA (New York International Fringe Festival 2004, Blue Heron Arts Center-NYC, Silk Road Theatre-Chicago), Paris (Lower East Side Tenement Museum -7.11 Convenience Theatre Festival 2005). His most recent play The President is Coming premiered at The Rage Productions/ Royal Court Theatre Writers Bloc Festival in Mumbai, India and received at staged reading at Salaam Theatre, NYC . His screenplays include the independent films: LOINS OF PUNJAB PRESENTS - Best Feature NYU First Run Film Festival 2007 (Dir: Manish Acharya- with Shabana Azmi and Ayesha Dharker), CROSSROADS - selected for The Mumbai International Film Festival'07 and The Osian Film Festival 2007 (Dir: Rajyashree Ojha- with Victor Banerjee, Soha Ali Khan, Zeenat Aman). Life, Love and EBITDA played as part of the Public Theatre's New Work Now! 2005 Festival. His work has been featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Time Out New York , Theatermania , NY Theatre, Village Voice, Mint/ Wall Street Journal, Playbill, India Today, The Hindu, Rediff/ India Abroad, Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Mumbai Mirror, and many other publications. |
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| Aladdin Ullah has been trailblazing the way as one of the first South Asians to perform as a stand-up comedian on National TV on shows such as Showtime at the Apollo, and BET's Comicview. He was featured in the popular PBS documentary DESIS: South Asians in NY. As an actor his Theater credits include his one man show INDIO directed by Loretta Greco at the New Works Now! Festival at the Public Theater and Mike Batistic's Port Authority Throwdown at the Culture Project. Film credits: Professor Gautaum in American Desi. He has been seen in several commercials and done hundreds of voiceovers for TV and film. Currently he is in Uncle Morty's Dub shack on Imaginasiantv. (ch.560 Time Warner) As a writer Aladdin was a finalist in the Julliard playwrighting fellowship and developed TV projects for Nickelodeon. |
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| Kesav Murthy Wable is the 2006-07 Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC) inaugural South Asian Playwriting Fellow at the Lark Theatre and Play Development Center in New York City. He received this honor for his one-act play "For Flow" based on Beckett's "Waiting for Godot". He is currently working on his new play entitled, "Chakras". In 2005 he completed the script "Ashoka's Wheel" which was selected for a directed reading as part of the Chicago-based company Rasaka Theatre's reading series. The reading was staged on March 1st, 2006 to a full-house that thoroughly appreciated the merits of the piece (see www.ashokaswheel.com). In July of 2006, "Ashoka's Wheel" was featured as a finalist in the Chicago Dramatists' "Many Voices Project". As an actor, he appeared as 'Darius' in Yong Soo Pak's film Antigone 5000. He has performed in numerous stage productions including 'Stephen' in Israel Horovitz's Line at the 13th Street Repertory Theater, Hossein in Khaddish in East Jerusalem at the Theater for the New City and Murellus in Julius Caesar at the National Black Theater-all staged in New York City. In 2004, Kesav collaborated with eyeBLINK ENTERTAINMENT to stage an adaptation of Indian folk tales, 'Beneath the Banyan Tree', that he co-wrote with Qurrat Kadwani. Kesav is a third year law student at Brooklyn Law School. |
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